Hello,

I've switched from courier-imap to dovecot to benefit from the virtual folder feature. I'm using dovecot 1.2.6 on Gentoo Linux. However, I', getting the message "[NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: <name>" from Thunderbird when I try to access any virtual folder.

The relevant setup:

mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir

namespace private { separator = . inbox = yes hidden = yes list = yes }

namespace private { prefix = virtual. separator = . location = virtual:~/.maildir/.virtual }

I then created the folders ~user/.maildir/.virtual and ~user/.maildir/.virtual.test and placed a file in .virtual.test with the contents

====== * all

After a dovecot restart I'm getting the error message: "[NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: test"

Where did I make the mistake in the configuration? Is the "." path separator a problem case?

ciao, Elmar