[Dovecot] Unwanted INBOX. prefix issues

[Christian Skarby]

Den 26-03-2007 08:59, Kevin Bowling skrev:
> On 3/25/07, Christian Skarby <christian.skarby at interhost.no> wrote:
>> Den 26-03-2007 08:29, Kevin Bowling skrev:
>> > I have a strange problem.  I installed Dovecot and had my trash 
>> folder and
>> > such in the root of my maildir, and everything was working great.  I 
>> then
>> > installed SquirrelMail which created folders in with the INBOX. 
>> prefix.  I
>> > manually removed these from the maildir, but the INBOX.Trash is 
>> still shown
>> > in the folder listing of Thunderbird.  This leads to some strange 
>> behavior,
>> > such as the delete button not working.  Is there a way I can reset the
>> > folder list, and take the INBOX.* items out?  Any help would be
>> > appreciated.
>>
>> Check the subscriptions file in your maildir - remove any references to
>> folders which are not present, or that you do not want to appear as
>> default on your imap clients.
>>
> 
> I was able to remove the offending folder from the subscriptions
> folder, however a new problem appeared.  Thunderbird now no longer
> lists an Inbox folder.  All the mail is there, and Tunderbird even
> shows it when it is first started.  However, there is no way to switch
> back to the Inbox folder.  Any pointers on telling the root folder to
> display as Inbox?
> 

Please read http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces and related documentation.

-- 
Regards,
Christian
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