[Dovecot] .mailboxlist -> .subscriptions

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-03-14 10:46 AM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
> Over the years, some imap accounts had their folders directly in their
> home directory and the contents of the .mailboxlist file would have an
> entry with just the name of the folder in it (Trash, eg), and most had
> the folders in their ~/mail folder with an entry like "mail/Trash". Our
> webmail app, Horde/Imp, always seemed to take care of this. If I create
> the .subscription file for the users during the move to the new server,
> should I move the folders to the mail directory and amend their
> .subscriptions file to reflect that change on these odd ball accounts,
> and will that affect how their client is seeing these?

Yes... dovecot doesn't like it when stuff other than mail is in the home 
folder:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home

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Best regards,

Charles