"Scott Techlist" <[email protected]> writes:
How will the IMAP account behave with the current mail_location setting below?
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
That is, where will the IMAP account's mail "go"? Right now it goes to
/var/mail/[localusername]. Maybe incorrectly, I assumed IMAP required
Maildir format? How are folders handled with this setting?. The one
IMAP account would be used for spamassassin training, it would need 2
shared/public folders ("spam", "ham").
IMAP is a protocol: it does not dictate the storage format. You're
free to use whatever format dovecot supplies a backend for, including
mbox or maildir.
What your mail_location specifies is that the INBOX is a mbox (not
maildir) formatted file located at /var/mail/[localusername]. Other
mailboxes are located in ~[localusername]/mail/* (also mbox formatted).
If the IMAP account requires 2 externally supplied mailboxes or folders
(spam, ham) accessible via IMAP, you'll either have to copy them into
the IMAP user's mail/ folder, or setup special name spaces that maps to
the mailboxes' path. The mailboxes need appropriate file permissions
so that the IMAP user can access it.
Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
