On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 19:25 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
The text file looks exactly like an mbox file - it is the two messages, complete with headers, concatenated.
That's strange. It probably includes From .... lines too, making it a complete mbox file.
There already is an .INBOX.Design folder, set up with all the correct contents.
Except the missing two mails? I guess you see all these via dovecot too, right? And in a folder displayed as something like INBOX/Design by your mail client.
I wonder what would happen if I renamed Design to Pattern?
That still wouldn't be correct. It should be named .Pattern.
I wonder if .INBOX.Design would then show up?
Oh inbox.design does not show up via imap?
And if it did, would I be able to simply move the messages into the correct folder using a file manager?
In theory, yes, but you'd have to look out for filename clashes.
Here's how maildir works: Maildir/ cur/ <- all mails in INBOX go here new/ <- new mails stored here until dovecot moves them to cur tmp/ .INBOX/ <- only dovecot control stuff in here .FOLDER/ cur/ <- mails in FOLDER go here new/ <- new mails stored here until dovecot moves them to cur tmp/ .INBOX.FOLDER/ cur,new,tmp - mail for subfolder FOLDER of INBOX go here.
Maybe dovecot is tripped up by the fact that you indeed have .Design, but it isn't a folder. Selecting it in your mail client (if it shows) should give an error (dovecot has an option to ignore non-directories, so that might be on too)
johannes