[Dovecot] IMAP Folders Don't Make Sense

[Carlos Williams]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:
>> Try adding a namespace.
>>
>> namespace private {
>>  separator = .
>>  prefix = INBOX.
>>  inbox = yes
>> }
>
> I made that change and reloaded Dovecot and all my users on the mail
> server lost the folders...

Sorry - I was wrong. This didn't remove anything from my server. I
guess it helps when you issue the ls -la command. I was just being
paranoid. My question now is how do I clean up my Maildir/ to how it
should be?

Right now after the change and successfully restarting IMAP, I have
the following directory when I login to Linux. I haven't opened up any
mail clients yet...

[root at mail Maildir]# ls -la
total 496
drwx------ 32 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 15:01 .
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 23 13:24 ..
drwx------  2 cwilliams it  53248 Feb 25 13:41 cur
-rw-------  1 cwilliams it   1288 Feb 25 13:41 dovecot.index
-rw-------  1 cwilliams it  65952 Feb 25 13:41 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------  1 cwilliams it  55636 Feb 25 13:42 dovecot.index.log
-rw-------  1 cwilliams it 131124 Feb 10 16:18 dovecot.index.log.2
-rw-------  1 cwilliams it    121 Jul 15  2009 dovecot-keywords
-rw-------  1 cwilliams it   8190 Feb 25 13:13 dovecot-uidlist
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 12:47 .Drafts
drwx------  2 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 13:27 .INBOX
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:53 .INBOX.CDW
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 08:55 .INBOX.ClamAV
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:54 .INBOX.Dell
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:54 .INBOX.Dell.Certification
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:54 .INBOX.Dell.Quotes
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 08:54 .INBOX.Dell.Warranty
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 08:55 .INBOX.IBM
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:54 .INBOX.Logs.Clearcase
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 08:54 .INBOX.Logs.Clearquest
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:54 .INBOX.Maintenance Weekend
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:54 .INBOX.Red Hat
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 23 09:26 .INBOX.Symantec
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:54 .INBOX.Verisign
drwx------  2 cwilliams it  32768 Feb 25 13:13 new
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:53 .Sent
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 17 08:37 .Spam
-rw-------  1 cwilliams it    393 Feb 23 10:23 subscriptions
drwx------  2 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 13:13 tmp
drwx------  5 cwilliams it   4096 Feb 25 14:11 .Trash