[Dovecot] Maildir + Evolution

[Timo Sirainen]

On 18.6.2004, at 13:00, mkortela at cc.hut.fi wrote:

> I don't know if this is an Evolution bug or not, but when I use the
> maildir format with Dovecot 0.99.10p2 (from OpenBSD packages 
> collection)
> and connect to it from Evolution 1.4 using IMAP, Evolution displays
> subfolders incorrectly. It actually does not show any subfolders, only
> root folders with names like "Folder.Subfolder" and
> "Folder.Subfolder.Subsubfolder".  There's no such problem when using
> traditional mailboxes. Is this an Evolution bug or one of Dovecot's? I 
> had
> thought the IMAP protocol should act the same no matter which mail dir
> structure was used...

Evolution is probably caching wrong hierarchy separator (you switched 
from mbox to maildir? they have different separators), recreating the 
account in Evolution should help.
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