[Dovecot] Not seeing other folders with some clients

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 9 03:37:18 EEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 01:20 +0200, Thibault VINCENT wrote:

>  By the way, is there any special reason why dovecot 1.0 has a strange 
> behaviour with symlinks ? I through it was client specific but it may not be.
>  I have various sieve scripts in my maildir, and I choose the one I want to be 
> active pointing the .dovecot.sieve link to to the desired file (witch is 
> within a directory : .dovecot.sievec --> ./scripts/vacations ).
>  The «scripts» folder is actually considered by dovecot as an IMAP one, 
> labeled «dovecot» (first part of the link filename), that contains an other 
> folder labeled «sieve» (i guess because of the extention of the link name).

That's why you shouldn't point your home directory to the same location
as your maildir. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs

You can also fix this by setting maildir_stat_dirs=yes

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