[Dovecot] irregular problem on outlook + imap

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:52:00PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:19 +0100, Michele Petrazzo - Unipex wrote:
> > * LSUB () "." " folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers"
> 

	Hi Folks,

	This may relate to one of the few problems I see with dovecot.
	This had nothing to do with outlook; rather mutt or kmail.

	A couple years ago, sendmail delivered my mail to
	~/Mail/<user> and I could cd to ~/Mail and grep and find the
	string(s) sought.  

	Dovecot seems to save its mail on my mailserver as
	~/Mailbox/<dotuser>/*.  What do I change in the conf file to
	get rid of the directory DOT prefixes?  

	If there is any documentation on this, please point me at it?

	tia.


> This means it's in the subscriptions file.
> 
> > lylu APPEND "folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" (\Seen) 
> > "30-Nov-2009 10:34:00 +0100" {280844}
> > lylu NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces 
> > and numbers
> 
> This means it doesn't really exist, even though it's subscribed.
> 
> > On the maildir home (maildir:~/mail/), it's present the folder.with.dots 
> > and spaces and numbers and the same into the "subscriptions" file
> 
> Are you sure it's really in the ~/mail/ directory exactly the same? You
> could try also talking IMAP directly:
> 
> telnet localhost 143
> a login user pass
> b list "" "folder.with.dots*"
> 
> Is it listed?
> 
> Anyway it should work fine:
> 
> a create "folder.with.dots and spaces and num1234"
> a OK Create completed.
> b append "folder.with.dots and spaces and num1234" {10}
> + OK
> From: foo
> 
> b OK Append completed.



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