[Dovecot] Unwanted INBOX. prefix issues

[Kevin Bowling]

On 3/26/07, Christian Skarby <christian.skarby at interhost.no> wrote:
> 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.
>
  A quick restart of Dovecot fixed this one.  Thanks for you
assistance, all is well again!