[Dovecot] configuration problem: maildir folders and messages not found

[Bram Mertens]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:51 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:23 +0200, Bram Mertens wrote:
> > > > |-- .INBOX
> > > > |   |-- .IN-testing
[...]
> > So there shouldn't be subfolders of ~/Maildir/.INBOX ?
> 
> Maildir++ layout creates subfolders by separating them with "." in the
> directory name. So if you wanted to create INBOX/IN-testing, you'd have
> to name it .INBOX.IN-testing.
> 
> The .INBOX directory itself is used only for Dovecot's indexes in
> 0.99.x. 1.0-stables/tests don't use .INBOX at all anymore.

Thanks for the explanation, my procmail rules are working as expected
now!

> > > Are you listing only subscribed folders and haven't subscribed them?
> > > Have you set IMAP namespace prefix? It should be empty. Sounds like
> > > client problem in any case.
> > 
> > Aha thanks that was it, like I said I'm migrating form mbox to maildir
> > so I've never had to subscribe to folders before!
> 
> The subscription thing is IMAP-specific and is just as required to mbox
> as it is for maildir. Maybe before you hadn't set "show only subscribed
> folders" checkbox in client's configuration.

I assume you mean't isn't IMAP-specific? Anyway, I can't find an option
like this in my "old" account settings...  I do notice from time to time
that new folders don't show up in evolution regardless of the fact
whether the "show only subscribed folders" option is set or not. When it
is set and I subscribe to a new folder it doesn't appear all the time
either. But that's an evolution problem, I'll bug the evo-list about
that later.

> > > > default_mail_env = maildir:/%h/Maildir
> > > 
> > > This is correct. Except the '/' before %h isn't needed.
> > 
> > Should I remove it or is it simply redundant?
> 
> As long as filesystems don't try to access //home/... in some special
> way, it doesn't matter. Cleaner anyway without the extra / :)

Ok, I'll remove it then to be on the safe side.

Thanks for all the feedback! Dovecot is working wonderful, I'll do some
more testing but I'm quite confident I'll be able to migrate my main
accounts soon!

Regards

Bram
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