[Dovecot] Clients show .subscriptions folder

[Mark Sapiro]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Since upgrading from dovecot-2.1.rc1 to dovecot-2.1.rc3, some clients
> are showing a .subscriptions file in the user's mbox path as a folder.
> 
> Some clients such as T'bird on Mac OS X create this file listing
> subscribed mbox files. Other clients such as T'bird on Windows XP show
> this file as a folder in the folder list even though it cannot be
> accessed as a folder (dovecot returns CANNOT Mailbox is not a valid
> mbox file).
> 
> I think this may be a result of uncommenting the inbox namespace in
> conf.d/10-mail.conf
> <http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/2c8d39467f21>.
> 
> Is there a way to supress exposing this file to clients that don't use
> it?


I worked around this by setting the client to show only subscribed folders.

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