[Dovecot] Can't get dovecot to see email folders

[Brian Hayden]

Read up on namespace configuration some more. 

Dovecot makes the sort of thing you're talking about very easy if you familiarize yourself with namespaces first. It can overcome most of the problems caused by historical poor choices in client configuration. 

-Brian


On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Blaster <blaster at 556nato.com> wrote:

> So I'm very frustrated, I've spent the better part of a day trying to get dovecot 2.0.1 working...Most of the documentation on the Wiki seems to think you are running an older version and therefore very little of it applies.
> 
> I'm running 2.0.1 on OpenSolaris.
> 
> I seem to have 2 remaining issues:
> 
> 1) Dovecot is not able to determine the home directory
> 2) IMAP clients can not get to the mail folder directory.  One client is reporting that it can't open it in read only
> mode.
> 3) I tried to get raw logging working, but apparently I couldn't because of #1.
> 
> The architecture of Dovecot makes it difficult to transition from another IMAP server.   If I force the MBOX to be /home/%u/mail, all of my clients think the folders are in /home/%u/mail/mail.  If I set mbox location to /home/%u, then dovecot tries to create .subscription and .imap files/directories in the users home dir which it doesn't have permission to do.  It would be nice if you could configure Dovecot in such a way as to make transition easier, such as the ability to strip off a duplicate trailing path, ie /home/%u/mail/mail becomes /home/%u/mail....Otherwise this necessitates visiting countless IMAP clients for reconfiguration...
> 
> Here is my config file:
> /opt/sbin/dovecot -n
> # 2.0.1: /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc
> base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_gid = mail
> mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> mail_uid = dovecot
> passdb {
>  driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>  home = /home/%u
> }
> service imap-login {
>  inet_listener imap {
>    port = 143
>  }
>  inet_listener imaps {
>    address = *
>    port = 993
>  }
> }
> service pop3-login {
>  inet_listener pop3 {
>    address = *
>    port = 0
>  }
>  inet_listener pop3s {
>    address = *
>    port = 0
>  }
> }
> ssl_cert = </usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </usr/local/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
> gremlin [/opt/bin] #
> gremlin [/opt/bin] #
> 
> 
>