[Dovecot] users mail folders have to be subscribed

[Andre Bischof]

2012/11/18 Daniel Parthey <daniel.parthey at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>

> Andre Bischof wrote:
> > I did a migration from cyrus 2.2 to dovecot (fresh installation, details
> > below) via cyrus2dovecot from FU Berlin. That worked, but I first was
> > missing mails in subfolders ander Inbox. No I detected that they are in
> the
> > users Maildir in folders in his directory. They are listed when using
> > telnet:
> >
> > * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.ebay"
> > * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.ebay.xj"
> >
> > But they are not shown in thunderbird, I have to subscribe to them one by
> > one. I probably did something wrong and maybe messed up with namespace
> and
> > seperator settings - it would be great if one could lead me out of that.
> > The wiki was a great help installing and configuring everything, but now
> > I'm stuck.
>
> Unsubscribed mailboxes are not shown in thunderbird, while subscriptions
> being stored server side, not in your local thunderbird.
>
>
Hi Daniel,

thank you, I guess that will be helpful - but before trying it, I would
like to get one thing clear, which could be the reason for my
misunderstandings:

IMHO I don't need any subscriptions, I would like to appear the imported
cyrus folders and subfolders as subfolders in dovecot. The directory
structure seperated by '.' in the folders names in my Maildir is exactly
how I would like to have it in Thunderbird.

Do I need subscriptions for that (I always thought subscriptions are to
subscribe to other users folders, shared by them) or should I have that any
other way?


> You can use this command to subscribe one or more mailboxes:
>   doveadm mailbox subscribe [-A|-u user] [-S socket_path] mailbox ...
>
> This should subscribe all mailboxes of a specific user (-A for all users):
>   doveadm mailbox subscribe -u user at example.com "*"
>
> You can set this configuration option to auto-subscribe new folders:
>   lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
>
>
I will set this, thanks.

Regards
Andre