Curtis Maloney wrote:
Sitapati das wrote:
Hi all,
I cannot get Thunderbird 0.8 to work with my dovecot IMAP server. It works fine with my work IMAP account - I'm not sure what they are using.
I guess for everyone's benefit I must ask : Which version of Dovecot are you using?
What happens is that folders that I create in Thunderbird or Evolution can only contain subfolders or messages, not a combination of both.
Folders which contain subfolders and not messages show up in Thunderbird grayed out. I can expand them and view the subfolders and the messages within those.
You're using mbox storage, aren't you? This whole "only subfolders or messages, not both" is a limitation of mbox.
Though when I was playing with 1.0test46, I attempted to create a folder in an mbox where only messages can be; it silently fails. But I if go into the Maildir side (I was testing mixed mbox/Maildir stores with 1.0test46), I can create folders within folder and stuff messags in there 'til I'm blue in the face.
So I don't think it hurts to have that checkbox checked which signifies that the server supports folders which can contain both types of data even though with mbox, they're mutually exclusive. However, a "mutually-exclusive" setup more or less keeps you from usefully using a Maildir-centric setup. ;)
So I'm with you; it's a client settings issue.
--Ian.