Re: [Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-07-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.6.2012, at 2.34, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I am continuing to attempt to set up dovecot to keep its mail store in maildir form while receiving it from an mbox, but without success. Dovecot reports the error that it can't create the file ~/mail/.imap/INBOX (and also that it can't chown

Re: [Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-06-28 Thread Jeff Lacki
Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: Quite right; this comes from a reading of pages in both wiki1 and wiki2. I now surmise that this isn't a good idea since wiki1 describes v1.x and wiki2 describes v2.x, which have different syntaxes (syntaces?). Is all this correct? I too had a

Re: [Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-06-27 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 27.6.2012, at 0.19, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: 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

Re: [Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-06-27 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 17:30 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 27.6.2012, at 0.19, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: 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:

[Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-06-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
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

Re: [Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-06-26 Thread Scott Silva
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

Re: [Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-06-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
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

Re: [Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir

2012-06-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/26/2012 2:19 PM Jonathan Ryshpan spake the following: 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