[Dovecot] multiple namespaces, Mac OS X

[David Koski]

Never mind.  I found:  http://www.dovecot.org/doc/NEWS

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v1.0.rc29 2007-03-28  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
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IMAP: LIST "" "" didn't return anything if there didn't exist a namespace with 
empty prefix. This broke some clients
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I upgraded using backport binaries 1.0.10-1~bpo40+1 and it works with Mac OS X 
mail clients now.

Regards,
David

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 14:37, David Koski wrote:
> After installing a new server with postfix/dovecot I found that the Mac OS
> X mail client does not see email in subfolders.  It seemed to be related to
> the namespace.  From dovecot.conf:
>
> namespace private {
>     separator = .
>     prefix = INBOX.
>     inbox = yes
>     hidden = no
> }
>
> After googling I found that I might need to add a default namespace with an
> empty prefix so I added this:
>
> namespace private {
>     separator = .
>     prefix =
>     inbox = yes
>     hidden = no
> }
>
> Then I was able to access mail in subfolders using the Mac mail client.
> However, using Kmail I can see both namespaces, where all the folders are
> listed under the inbox at the same level, and where all folders are listed
> one level below the inbox.  I don't really want to keep my "INBOX." prefix
> so existing accounts remain unchanged.  How do I solve this?
>
> The current dovecot.conf is below.
>
> Regards,
> David Koski
> david at kosmosisland.com
>
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> first_valid_uid: 104
> last_valid_uid: 104
> mail_extra_groups: mail
> mail_location: /var/vmail
> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
> mail_plugins: quota imap_quota
> imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail
> namespace:
>   type: private
>   separator: .
>   prefix: INBOX.
>   inbox: yes
> auth default:
>   mechanisms: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 APOP NTLM
>   user: nobody
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   passdb:
>     driver: sql
>     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   userdb:
>     driver: sql
>     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   userdb:
>     driver: prefetch
>   socket:
>     type: listen
>     client:
>       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>       mode: 432
>       user: postfix
>       group: mail
>     master:
>       path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>       mode: 432
>       user: vmail
>       group: mail