[Dovecot] IMAP Folders Don't Make Sense
Rick Romero
rick at havokmon.com
Thu Feb 25 21:41:00 EET 2010
Quoting "Carlos Williams" <carloswill at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:
>> The entire structure doesn't look correct for Maildir.
>> The folders you listed, puts you already in the INBOX, so your MUA should be
>> seeing:
>> INBOX\
>> Drafts
>> INBOX\
>> ClamAV
>> Dell.Quotes
>> Dell.Warranty
>> etc.etc.etc..
>> Sent
>> Spam
>> Trash
>>
>> If you are not seeing the folders in that order, then I think your
>> dovecot.conf isn't quite right. Please post the output of dovecot -n
>
> No I don't appear to be seeing this and I think the fact that I have
> used different mail clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, etc etc etc) and
> think that their default folder structure may have made a mess on my
> IMAP Maildir structure over the years.
>
> Below is my dovecot -n:
>
> [root at mail Maildir]# dovecot -n
> # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
> protocols: imap
> ssl_cert_file: /srv/ssl/ghost.crt
> ssl_key_file: /srv/ssl/ghost.key
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
> auth default:
> mechanisms: plain login
> passdb:
> driver: pam
> userdb:
> driver: passwd
> socket:
> type: listen
> client:
> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
> mode: 432
> user: postfix
> group: postfix
>
> ---
>
> Beyond that I don't know why it's messed up and more importantly, how
> I can fix it. Any suggestions?
Try adding a namespace.
namespace private {
separator = .
prefix = INBOX.
inbox = yes
}
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