[Dovecot] Folders within folders ...
Ashley M. Kirchner
ashley at pcraft.com
Wed Feb 10 21:24:17 EET 2010
Our mail setup is as follows:
~/mail/ - This contains single mailboxes (Drafts, Trash, and others)
~/mail-Archives/ - This contains a hierarchy of folders containing
mailboxes
For example, a tree of ~/mail/ would look like this:
~/mail/
~/mail/Trash
~/mail/Drafts
~/mail/sent-mail
~/mail/My Stuff
~/mail/Important
~/mail/test/SomeFolder <-- this would never happen, but I have to
account for it during our transition
A tree of ~/mail-Archives/ would look like this:
~mail-Archives/2009/MyStuff/MyStuff-Dec09
~mail-Archives/2009/MyStuff/MyStuff-Nov09
~mail-Archives/2009/MyStuff/MyStuff-Oct09
~mail-Archives/2010/MyStuff/MyStuff-Jan10
~mail-Archives/2010/Important/Important-Jan10
All of that works, I can open up Thunderbird and browser/read/delete
messages no problem. However, when I try to move that 'test' folder
from ~/mail/ into ~/mail-Archives I get an error message:
'Can't rename mailbox to another storage type.'
The same thing happens if I try to move any of the mailboxes in
~/mail/ to ~/mail-Archives/ . Is there a way to fix that? Our
namespaces look like this:
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = "mail/"
location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
inbox = yes
hidden = no
list = yes # for v1.1+
}
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = "mail-Archives/"
location = mbox:~/mail-Archives
inbox = no
hidden = no
list = yes
subscriptions = yes
}
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