On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 13:48 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 6/26/2012 1:35 PM Jonathan Ryshpan spake the following: > > I'm trying to set up a dovecot server for which mail arrives in an mbox, > > and mail is stored in a maildir. The wiki (see > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces) refers to this as "Mixed mbox and > > Maildir". It advises handling this situation by creating two > > namespaces: one for the mbox and the other for the maildir. Each of > > these namespaces starts with > > namespace private { > > > > On the other hand the sample configuration in the documentation puts > > inbox in a namespace starting with: > > namespace inbox { > > # Namespace type: private, shared or public > > #type = private > > > > It appears that there has been a change in the configuration syntax > > after the wiki was written, and that the word following namespace > > no longer gives a property of the namespace, but rather its name. > > Is this correct? In any case, how should the configuration be modified
> If you are working with 2.0 or later dovecot, you should be at > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces I am using 2.1.7 . I surmise from this Namespace page that the form: namespace <type> { where <type> is one of "public", "private", or "shared" creates an unnamed namespace of type <type> while the form: namespace <name> { where <name> is none of "public", "private", or "shared", creates a namespace with the name <name> and the default type (unspecified on this page, but probably private). The namespace can be given the type desired by an (undocumented) namespace setting: namespace inbox ( type = <type> Is this correct? Thanks - jon