On 06/21/2011 08:11 AM, fusionstream wrote:
Hi there.
I have dovecot 1.2.17 installed on me system.
I'd like to create a gmail-esque imap tree where all imap folders except for the inbox are in a subdirectory(?). More importantly, I'd like the email client (specifically thunderbird) to be able to recognise the folders and thusly give it a special trash/junk/etc icon which I presume also makes trash and junk go to, well the truash and junk folders automagically. Based on searching the web, I believe that namespaces are the solution. I believed that I had set it up to be
- Inbox
- IMAP
- Drafts
- Junk
- Trash
- etc
However, when trying to use namespaces, I get IMAP.Drafts, IMAP.Junk and all the other folders also appearing in INBOX, in addition to another top-level IMAP.*. What am I doing wrong? If I understand the solutions posted on the web correctly, solving this (resulting in only one of each type of folder) should make thunderbird automagically recognise these "special folders".
Why not just have one namespace with the IMAP. prefix? "INBOX" is a special reserved mailbox that will always exist.
As far as Thunderbird "recognizing" the folders and giving them the special icons -- that's nothing Dovecot has control over. Thunderbird will just look for common-named folders, such as "Trash" and figure that's the Trash spot.