[Dovecot] Why does dovecot confuse mutt?

[Reuben Farrelly]

Hi,

I'm seeing the same problem with Eudora 5 and 6 so I'm guessing it's not a 
mutt problem.  Every mailbox appears as a folder  :(  I've had no response 
from Qualcomm about this despite offering to work with them about it.

However everything fine in Netscape 7.1 - and all _looks_ fine with Outlook 
Express 6 till you try open a mailbox within a folder and it simply 
complains "Mailbox doesn't exist: Maildir.Mailing 
lists.RHL-Beta".  Everything worked fine with all those clients using 
UW-IMAP so I'm wondering if it is a dovecot issue...

Reuben





At 02:52 p.m. 24/07/2003, Amelia A Lewis wrote:
>Heylas,
>
>I just switched my primary mail server from courier imap to dovecot (I've 
>been waiting to do this; dovecot showed up in debian testing for alpha, at 
>last).  So, using the same set of maildirs, there are slightly different 
>behaviors.
>
>First, of course, dovecot displays the hierarchy as I thought it ought to 
>be, such that INBOX is a sibling of all other top-level boxes, not the 
>parent of everything.  This is A Good Thing[tm].  That works as expected.
>
>However, as far as mutt is concerned, *every* mailbox has child 
>folders.  My muttrc contains the line: set folder=imap://localhost/.  (and 
>the home folder is set to imap://localhost/INBOX; the idea is to do all 
>mail munging through the server, never directly touching the maildirs with 
>an MUA).  Oh, and I'm using maildir (~/Maildir).  In mutt, from the 
>currently-selected mailbox, one can use 'c' to change boxes, and ? 
>displays a navigable folder hierarchy.  If a folder contains only mail (no 
>child folders), it shows up as "FolderName", if it has child folders 
>(whether or not it has mail), it shows up as "FolderName.".  You can 
>display the mail in a folder that has child folders, but it requires a 
>different keystroke than the default (enter selects a folder, which means 
>showing child folders if there are any, showing mail if there aren't; to 
>display mail in a folder that has child folders, space).
>
>This is tripping me up a little, because of course the commands are mostly 
>bred into my fingertips, and it's a difficult adjustment.  I hit return, 
>and I see a folder that contains the "child" folder "../".
>
>Is this a glitch in mutt's handling of information that I ought to report 
>to mutt maintainers?  Is it a glitch in dovecot's presentation of 
>information that I ought to report to ... err, well.  *laugh*  My other 
>primary mail client seems to cope beautifully with the information that's 
>supplied (sylpheed, if it matters).  But then, sylpheed also coped 
>perfectly when courier was supplying information.  I gather that courier 
>and dovecot are reporting something slightly different, somehow, but I 
>don't really know what, and I don't know which should be considered "correct".
>
>Amy!