Hi all, I believe I have worked this out, there is an entry in dovecot.conf for the private namespace which sets the prefix required to access the namespace as follows
prefix = INBOX.
I commented this out and restarted dovecot.
I know that I need to make this change in the template for dovecot as the direct edit of dovecot.conf will be overwritten when dovecot is updated. I am also checking if there are any implications in doing this, If anyone knows any please drop me a reply.
Many thanks
Marcus
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of marcus lively Sent: 30 October 2013 03:08 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] IMAP Dovecot unknown namespace creating root folders
Hi, I hope someone can point me in the right direction here. I am migrating a mailbox from a non cPanel server, and the mailboxes have folders which seem to be at the same level as the Inbox. The users access these mailboxes using IMAP.
The new server configuration is Exim > Dovecot 1.2.17 > Maildir with the standard cPanel install settings. dovecot -n output below
I have created the new mailbox within cPanel however when I try to create a 'top level' folder in Outlook I receive the error 'Cannot create the folder: Unknown namespace' (Note I also tried this with the windows mail client to ensure it was not client side)
I know that I can get round this by setting the root folder path on the client to 'Inbox' and therefore the folders would be created as sub- folders of Inbox, and this would not be visible to the user, but I was hoping to migrate without touching the clients.
Should dovecot report the default root folder path automatically, or create a default top level namespace for each user so this can be done, or could I have just gone wrong and missed something.
Any advice on getting this working appreciated, thanks for any help
Maspry
# 1.2.17: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.4 (Final) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/dovecot.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LOW:-SSLv2:-EXP disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 2 login_max_processes_count: 50 login_max_connections: 500 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): acl quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): acl quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s, bytes=%i/%o namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@example.com auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 1024 username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!#$- =?^_{}~./@+% passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dovecot-auth userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 438 plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: Trash:ignore acl: vfile