[Dovecot] doveadm mailbox list shows file system directories as mailboxes

Micah Anderson micah at riseup.net
Fri Oct 7 18:34:03 EEST 2011


Jürgen Obermann <Juergen.Obermann at hrz.uni-giessen.de> writes:

> Hello.
> In our dovecvot we use mbox format with the default filesystem layout.
> Therefore it is not possible to have mailboxes which are subfolders of  other
> mailboxes containing messages.
> The command "doveadm mailbox list" includes the file system  directories, that
> contain only subfolders, as normal mailboxes in the  output:
>
> archiv
> archiv/daemon
> archiv/dovecot

Did you perhaps do a 'doveadm mailbox subscribe' with a wildcard and the
shell expanded it?

micah




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