[Dovecot] thunderbird and subscriptions with sieve

[Thomas Harold]

On 8/31/2011 7:15 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
>
> If you set lda_mailbox_autosubscribe to yes, it will subscribe folders
> created by Sieve automatically.
>
> However, afaik Thunderbird will not notice the subscription at first.
> You need to reconnect for that to be noticed.
>

That's been my experience.  Sometimes a refresh will pick it up, but 
Thunderbird tends to be very slow about picking up new folders until you 
restart Thunderbird.

Note that in Dovecot v1, there's a flag that you set on the dovecot LDA 
to enable this behavior (lda_mailbox_autosubscribe was added in Dovecot v2):

http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA

Note the "-n" and "-s" parameters.  (Which get configured in master.cf 
if you're using Postfix.  Not sure how that gets configured on other MTAs.)