[Dovecot] Subscription to folders and subscription file
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 11 15:03:48 EEST 2010
On 11.8.2010, at 11.07, Fabio Ferrari wrote:
> The documentation says that this file ("subscriptions" or ".subscriptions"
> in the root of the maildir, I've tried both) holds the informations about
> the subscribed folders.
>
> I've created such a file with these lines:
>
> Trash
> Sent
> Drafts
> INBOX.prova
> INBOX.prova4
This could be right..
> And configured a client (Thunderbird) with INBOX.prova and INBOX.prova3
> subscribed. So, I have 2 different configurations: one for the client and
> one for the server.
Doesn't sound right.. They should be equal always.
Try talking IMAP protocol and seeing if the subscriptions file you created is correct: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
Especially see that the LIST and LSUB output contains the mailbox names the same way. You can also use SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE commands to change the subscriptions.
> So, since I grepped "prova3" on all the directory structure and I found
> nothing, I think that dovecot is saving these informations in a binary
> format somewhere. Is it right?
No, it doesn't. With Maildir it's in "subscriptions" text file.
dovecot -n output might have been useful too.
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