[Dovecot] Subfolder in Maildir

Magnus Holmgren holmgren at lysator.liu.se
Mon May 29 13:23:10 EEST 2006


On Monday 29 May 2006 11:25, Bart Braem took the opportunity to write:

> We have installed a brand new Dovecot because it seems very interesting as
> an IMAP server. We created a mailbox for a test user and we succeeded in
> copying some mails into it.
> However making subfolders does not work. The only folders we can create are
> in the root, next to the INBOX that is. We thought Maildir does support
> subfolders (as opposed to mbox), are we wrong here?
> Our Dovecot version is 1.0.b8_1.

It *should* work out of the box. What, exactly, happens when you try to create 
subfolders? What IMAP client do you use? What changes, if any, have you made 
to the default configuration?

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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