Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and Mail.app

I use Mail.app with dovecot (if you look in the archive you can see
some of the problems i had when setting it up). Although I prefer to
not have the courier-style presentation of all folders existing under
the inbox. If you use OS X server with OS X clients you get a
presentation of your accounts that looks like this:

Inbox Outbox Drafts Sent Junk SmartFolder1 SmartFolder2 Account1 Folder1 Folder2 ... Account2 FolderA

and for each of the "special" mailboxes (inbox, drafts, sent, junk)
there is a disclosure triangle with each separate account in case you
want to see only the inbox of a single account at a time: Inbox Account1 Account2 Drafts Account1 Account2 Sent Account1 Account2 Junk Account1 Account2

But just fyi, i use only the default namespace:

namespace private {
  separator = .
  prefix =
  inbox = yes
  hidden = no
}

and although i believe the mail_location to be irrelevant to this
discussion:

mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/email/%d/%u

.tim

On Dec 26, 2006, at 3:05 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

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On Dec 26, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

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I suppose I can live with the Mail.app behavior sans the prefix
setting in the namespace section, but it's not ideal. I'd really
like to know why Mail.app has a problem with this! Why are the
folders there but the contents empty? Is there any way to
increase the logging that Dovecot does to understand what the
Mail.app client is sending and why Dovecot is sending back that
error?

I did a little packet snooping and I think I might have discovered
what's going on. Apparently, Mail.app uses mailbox names like
INBOX/Foo and INBOX/Bar while Thunderbird uses mailbox names like
INBOX.Foo and INBOX.Bar. IOW, adding these two namespace sections
seems to support both clients:

# For Mail.app namespace private { separator = / prefix = INBOX/ inbox = yes } # For Thunderbird namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes }

I need to play with this some more to be sure. Can anybody
corroborate this? If true, the information should probably be
added to the Dovecot wiki.

• -Barry

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