Mike Brudenell wrote:
Whatever you do, DON'T move to Maildir if you are using the Prayer webmail software!
We have used Prayer here for many years with the UW IMAP server backend and first Berkeley, then later MBX, format mail folders.
When we migrated new users to Dovecoe with Maildir folders we discovered that Prayer does NOT like Maildir folders. The reason is that Maildir folders are "dual-purpose": each can contain any mix of messages and sub-folders. However Prayer is intrinsically designed to ONLY work with folders that can contain messages or subfolders, but NOT both. The result is that Prayer can show you the list of folders to navigate around, but will not list any messages within any folder.
I had to hack Prayer to cope with users we'd migrated to <cough>Exchange</cough> that were being proxied through Dovecot so that they didn't need to change their mail client settings. (Exchange was marking folders as "HASNOCHILDREN" rather than "HASNOINFERIORS" and would put a trailing "/" on a non-selectable directory.)
I'm not sure whether it would be Dovecot or Prayer I'd modify to deal with Maildirs!
Chris
-- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin@reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094