Hi. I've been fighting a losing battle to get Apple Mail and dovecot
to play nice. When dovecot is told to use mbox-style mailboxes, it's
not possible to create child mailboxes. Apple Mail whines "The IMAP
command “CREATE” failed with server error: Mailbox doesn't allow
inferior mailboxes.". I've looked through the documentation, the wiki
and searched the mail archives without finding a solution. Can anyone
help?
I've tried (and failed) to get a hybrid maildir/mbox setup to work
like that shown on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces. When that gets
plugged into dovecot.conf, Apple Mail blocks, with the Activity window
saying "waiting for login" or something like that, even though a valid
imaps connection and login has been established.
There's nothing getting logged by dovecote for both of these problems,
even when syslog is turned all the way to debug priority.
Here's the current configuration info:
shaun# dovecot -n # 1.1.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE amd64 ufs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ syslog_facility: local4 protocols: imaps listen: *, [::] ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_max_processes_count: 8 login_max_connections: 32 max_mail_processes: 32 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:/mail/imap/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl auth default: mechanisms: cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-md5 userdb: driver: passwd shaun# dovecot --version 1.1.16