Hi
I let the configuration of my IMAP clients unchanged from Courier to Dovecot. That is, they specify the "INBOX." prefix, as before. For instance, with Pine:
For me this crunches down the folder list so that it's inline with INBOX, not under it, in most programs?
- Thunderbird: All the folders are seen correctly. But the whole folders tree is under "Inbox", while with Courier the first-level folders (i.e. Drafts, mail, web) were at the same level of Inbox
I have recently been testing this back and forwards. If you delete the prefix, then refresh the folder list then a namespace with a prefix in it will create a tree and a namespace without the INBOX. prefix will be all inline
Personally I prefer the tree with all the folders under INBOX, but I used the opportunity to change to do without the prefix in order to make Outlook clients easier to setup (they otherwise don't use the Sent Items/Drafts folder on the server without manual configuration)
Ed W