Charles,
Thanks for much for your tips...I have gotten further!
I did have a userdb section, but I commented it out because it didn't seem to do anything. I've added it back in, and now home= is filled in appropriately. Now my mail clients aren't complaining!
However, Thunderbird, Outloook, etc, are still not able to list private
folders. If I make a new folder, it gets created in /home/%u/mail as it
should, but Thunderbird removes it again on the next refresh. If I use
the mail client on my Android phone which does a raw directory listing,
I'm put into the correct /home/%u/mail folder, so that part is working.
So this seems to be a foldering listing problem? I've copied in the
UW-IMAP namespace section from the WIKI.
HEre's my current config file, any thoughts as to why Thunderbird isn't picking up the private folders?
# /opt/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ first_valid_uid = 100 mail_debug = yes mail_gid = mail mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = dovecot namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace { hidden = yes list = yes location = prefix = mail/ separator = / } namespace { hidden = yes list = yes location = prefix = ~/mail/ separator = / } namespace { hidden = yes list = yes location = prefix = /home/%u/mail/ separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { home = /home/%u } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { address = * port = 0 } } ssl_cert =