[Dovecot] mailboxes missing after upgrade from 2.1.4 to 2.1.7

[Micah Anderson]

Micah Anderson <micah at riseup.net> writes:

> I mentioned this on the #dovecot irc channel, but I thought I would post
> here so I can provide more details.
>
> The basic problem is that when I upgraded from 2.1.4 to 2.1.7, some
> users no longer are able to see their folders in pine/alpine. The
> folders are actually there, and are subscribed (according to doveadm)
> and its possible to do operations on those folders, if you know the
> name (for example, opening the folder works fine if you know the name).
>
> When I downgrade to 2.1.4 again, the folders appear again, so its
> clearly something that changed between the two versions. I looked
> through the changelog, and found a few possibile culprits, I think
> pine/alpine use imapc, so that could be related:

I was able to solve this by changing the alpine folder-collection
configuration to *not* have /INBOX.[] at the end and instead have just
[]!

micah