[Dovecot] Re: Mail.app help

[Steve Pellegrin]

As far as I know, I am on the latest version: Version 2.0.5 (746/746.2).

I wonder if the problem is related to how *many* versions of Mail.App  
one has had? Perhaps updating older versions of Mail's data, prefs  
and so on over time could introduce the problem?

On the other hand, it might be related to other account settings like  
"Automatically synchronize..."" or something. Who can say?

-Steve


On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Roger Weeks wrote:

> I'm wondering if this is a version issue with Mail.app?  Are you on  
> OS X 10.3 or 10.4?
>
> The reason I ask is that we also migrated from Courier IMAP to  
> Dovecot 1.0alpha5 and then beta3, and we did not have this problem  
> with Mail.app that either of you are describing.
>
> I did have to remove the "INBOX." prefix from my Mail.app  
> configurations.  I also renamed all of the existing folders in my  
> Maildir from INBOX.foldername to .foldername, because after  
> removing the "INBOX." prefix Mail.app could not see them.
>
> Before I renamed all of the existing folders and changed the prefix  
> in Mail.app, I had also tried setting up alternate namespaces as  
> described in the wiki documentation for converting from Courier,  
> but that did not seem to work.  Mail.app and Thunderbird clients  
> could not see their IMAP folders with the courier-style namespace  
> configuration.
>
> --
> Roger J. Weeks
> Systems & Network Administrator
> Mendocino Community Network
>
> On Feb 14, 2006, at 8:45 AM, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:44:53 -0800
>> From: Steve Pellegrin <steve at convoglio.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mail.app help
>> To: Mike Garfias <mike at garfias.org>
>>
>> Sorry to respond so late to this, perhaps my experience will help.
>>
>> I believe that Mike's problem is caused by weird behavior in
>> Mail.App. I had the same issue after switching from Courier IMAP to
>> Dovecot 1.0beta2. (Courier requires the INBOX prefix).
>>
>> I only experienced this problem for folders that I defined myself. In
>> other words, the "standard" Sent, Trash and so on were OK. What I
>> found was that if I had a custom folder, call it Dovecot, and a rule
>> that directed mail list messages into that folder, Mail.App would
>> insist on creating INBOX.Dovecot, even though .Dovecot already  
>> existed.
>>
>> It's as if Mail.App had internalized the INBOX prefix in some secret
>> place and would not let go of it even though I changed the prefix
>> setting to be empty.
>>
>> My solution was to delete my mail account, shut down Mail.App, re-
>> launch it, and recreate the mail account. Now, everything works as
>> expected.
>>
>> -Steve
>