[Dovecot] IMAP Folders Don't Make Sense

Carlos Williams carloswill at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 22:11:57 EET 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:
> Yikes!  I thought this was a private install. :(  The namespace would be a
> pretty radical change.  It tells dovecot how to present folders.
>
> I'm not a namespace guru - but I'm fairly sure that's the issue.
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces
>
> I would suggest creating an alternate config file, using different ports and
> system directories, to test a namespace change.

It's OK. It appears to not have impacted any existing data. Perhaps
just changes how the new folders are managed. I did see a file in my
Maildir called 'subscriptions' and when I opened it with a text
editor, it had the old invalid IMAP directory structure...should I
delete or rename this file on my mailbox and then restart the client
to force it to re-build this subscriptions file?


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