On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:58 +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
Hi. I've been fighting a losing battle to get Apple Mail and dovecot
to play nice. When dovecot is told to use mbox-style mailboxes, it's
not possible to create child mailboxes. Apple Mail whines "The IMAP
command “CREATE” failed with server error: Mailbox doesn't allow
inferior mailboxes.". I've looked through the documentation, the wiki
and searched the mail archives without finding a solution. Can anyone
help?
If you want to create e.g. "sub/box", start from nothing. Don't create "sub". Give the mailbox name as "sub/box". The "sub" then can't have messages, but it can have other child mailboxes.
I've tried (and failed) to get a hybrid maildir/mbox setup to work
like that shown on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces. When that gets
plugged into dovecot.conf, Apple Mail blocks, with the Activity window
saying "waiting for login" or something like that, even though a valid
imaps connection and login has been established.
I don't really know about that. What kind of a namespace configuration exactly did you use?