[Dovecot] Subscription to folders and subscription file

[Fabio Ferrari]

Ok thanks for the help, the right "subscriptions" file was for some
reasons in another directory out from the mailbox tree.

Fabio Ferrari

> 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.