[Dovecot] Problem with Thunderbird and mailbox with SPECIAL-USE flag

[Sylvain]

For information, I have solved the problem with :

prefix=INBOX.
imapc_list_prefix=INBOX


Seen on recent thread « Problem migration from cyrus with imapc », thanks
Timo.

Sylvain


2013/11/25 Sylvain <debian.roxx at gmail.com>

> Hi !
>
> I have an old Courier IMAP and in front of it, I have put a proxy cache
> with the great Dovecot.
>
> SOGo webmail is connected to the proxy and works great (very very more
> fast) but I have a problem with Thunderbird : mailbox with « SPECIAL USE »
> aren't automatically detected.
> To make that works, I must :
> - in Dovecot : define the namespace inbox : « prefix = » and « separator =
> . »
> - in Thunderbird : force in the account, the personal namespace to
> "INBOX." and untick « Allow server to exceed namespace » (sorry : personal
> translation :D).
>
> If I define in the namespace inbox as the dovecot wiki said : « prefix =
> INBOX. » and « separator = . », TB see a sub-folder INBOX and mailbox with
> special use aren't automatically detected. :-(
> I must have forgotten a parameter in my Dovecot configuration but I don't
> see it.. Can you have a look please ?
> Here my configuration :
>
> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.2
> auth_debug_passwords = yes
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> first_valid_uid = 100
> imapc_host = xxxxxx
> mail_gid = imapproxy
> mail_home = /var/local/cache/dovecot/%1Mu/%1.1Mu/%u
> mail_location = imapc:~/imapc
> mail_uid = imapproxy
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   list = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix =
>   separator = .
>   type = private
> }
> passdb {
>   args = host=xxxxxx port=143
>   default_fields = userdb_imapc_user=%u userdb_imapc_password=%w
>   driver = imap
> }
> protocols = imap
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>   driver = prefetch
> }
>
> Sylvain
>
>