[Dovecot] Imap Ghost folder

[Sascha Zucca]

Hi!
Still noone?
strange...this must be some easy thing to solve if you're familiar with 
dovecot, i thought.
Anyways, thanks for any help
Sascha


Am 30.08.2012 08:43, schrieb Sascha Zucca:
> Hi!
> I am very sorry, i thought i had done so before. Well here ist is:
>
>
> dovecot -n
> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-14-pve i686 Debian 6.0.5 simfs
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
> mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%%d/%%n/Maildir
> mail_plugins = acl
> mail_privileged_group = vmail
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
> encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric 
> relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify 
> environment mailbox date ihave
> namespace {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   prefix =
>   separator = /
>   type = private
> }
> namespace {
>   hidden = yes
>   list = children
>   location = 
> maildir:/var/vmail/%%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/shared/%%u
>   prefix = Freigaben/%%n/
>   separator = /
>   subscriptions = no
>   type = shared
> }
> passdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   driver = sql
> }
> plugin {
>   acl = vfile
>   acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db
>   quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage
>   sieve = /var/vmail/%d/%n/.sieve
> }
> protocols = imap pop3 sieve
> service auth {
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>     group = postfix
>     mode = 0660
>     user = postfix
>   }
>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>     group = vmail
>     mode = 0600
>     user = vmail
>   }
>   user = root
> }
> ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
> ssl_key = </etc/postfix/smtpd.key
> userdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   driver = sql
> }
> protocol pop3 {
>   mail_plugins = quota
>   pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
> }
> protocol lda {
>   mail_plugins = sieve quota
> }
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = quota imap_quota acl imap_acl
> }
>
>
> I don't really think, it has anything to do with sieve, as the folder 
> simply won't show up as soo as i just change prefix = Freigaben/%%n/ 
> to prefix = Freigaben/%%u/.
> And i didn't filter into autocreated folders yet. For now, i created 
> only one sieve rule, that filters into an  folder i created manually.
>
>
> Thank you very much for your help
> Sascha
>
>
>
> Am 29.08.2012 22:48, schrieb Daniel Parthey:
>> Hi Sascha,
>>
>> Sascha Zucca wrote:
>>> Sorry, but i can't believe noone has a hint on this one.
>> Sorry, but you forgot to post your complete doveconf -n output
>> and how to exactly reproduce this.
>>
>>> http://s12.postimage.org/z0n82k2u5/bjddgefg.jpg (Thunderbird)
>> I'm getting the same result when SIEVE sorts Messages into autocreated
>> subfolders inside of folders which do not exist. So it's probably
>> not a ghost folder, it is just an intermediate folder
>> which does not exist itself, but contains existing subfolders.
>>
>> This forces your mail client to display the folder in the tree:
>>
>> INBOX             exists         (black)
>> INBOX/foo         does not exist (grey)
>> INBOX/foo/bar     exists         (black)
>>
>> HTH and Regards
>> Daniel
>
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