[Dovecot] Re: Mail.app help

[Roger Weeks]

That's possible.  When I migrated from 10.3 to 10.4, I did not  
upgrade the operating system.  I backed up my data to a firewire  
drive and did a clean install.  It was more hassle, but I do NOT  
trust operating system upgrades.  Never have.  :/

We definitely don't use the automatic IMAP synchronization.  It used  
to cause big problems with 10.3 Mail.app and Courier IMAP, so I never  
went back to using it.

I'm curious, what kind of namespaces do you have defined in Dovecot?

--
Roger J. Weeks
Systems & Network Administrator
Mendocino Community Network

On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Steve Pellegrin wrote:

> 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
>>
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