[BlueOnyx:20833] Re: MailDir guide.

[Greg Kuhnert]

Hi all.

There is no need to use maildir to use subdirectories on a Blueonyx server. Using either with roundcube or with my regular IMAP mail client I can create folders, and it works just fine. Been using it for years. Maildir has absolutely nothing to do with the concept of creating folders. There are other reasons to use maildir, but they are unrelated to folder creation.

Regards,
Greg.

> On 24 Mar 2017, at 4:56 am, Gregg K <greggk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> This is an update on what I have done so far on this issue.  It seems to be
> working nicely on a test server, but I'm not brave enough to make the
> changes on a production server, and I do not know if the file would be
> overwritten during an update or not.
> The change I made makes it possible for unlimited subfolders within
> subfolders, etc.
> The one file I edited is /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
> I changed mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=mbox to :
> mail_location =
> mbox:~/mail/mailboxes:DIRNAME=mBoX-MeSsAgEs:INDEX=~/mail/index:CONTROL=~/mai
> l/control
> 
> I found a whole article on why this works, I'm posting the URL in the
> message too:
> https://opensource.apple.com/source/dovecot/dovecot-279/dovecot/doc/wiki/Mbo
> xChildFolders.txt
> 
> On the test server, the test user has the mbox as a file just like normal,
> but there is a mail directory there now.
> In the mail directory there are 3 further directories control, index, and
> mailboxes.
> In the mailboxes directory you would find all the other directories that you
> create under outlook.
> The other thing I didn't test is RoundCube since this is a test server and I
> didn't purchase it just to mess around :)
> So I don't know how it will react to this change, if someone else is wanting
> to test it out, please let me know your findings.
> 
> Gregg
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Blueonyx [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of
>> Gregg K
>> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 6:22 PM
>> To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List' <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
>> Subject: [BlueOnyx:20802] MailDir guide.
>> 
>> I've been trying to deal with one client that absolutely has to have
>> subdirectories such as /inbox/HR/Complaints Etc.
>> Since we can't do that under MBOX I may have to finally have to try to
>> change to MAILDIR.  Is there a current guide on how to do that on a
> current
>> BlueOnyx?
>> I found this one:
>> http://mail.blueonyx.it/pipermail/blueonyx/2010-March/003799.html
>> But that's 7 years old now.  I have already found out that the config
> files are
>> slightly different on the new BO boxes.  I think even if I try this, I
> will try it for
>> on a non production box so that I don't screw anything up.
>> Thanks.
>> 
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