[Dovecot] Thunderbird does not find the right folders :-(

[Pascal Volk]

On 09/15/2009 10:10 AM sterkel at gmx.de wrote:
> Moika,
> 
> Overnight, I migrated my user-mails from uw-imap to dovecot-maildir. I used 
> the uw2dovecot.pl script to convert all mails and changed exim, too.
> Receiving mails works fine allready, but nobody can access the usual 
> subscribed folders with thunderbird.
> Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a folder called "_" 
> (underline).
> People getting mad about me as the cannot find their stuff any more in the 
> usual folders.
> 
> What can I do that they have the converted stuff in the same folders as 
> they had before?

Have you configured any namespace? If so, please provide the output from
`dovecot -n`.
If not, you could try it with setting up namespaces:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP


Regards,
Pascal
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