I am trying to configure dovecot-1.2.11 to have the same IMAP namespacing as courier-imap as per http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier, but failing badly.
I have a test maildir with INBOX and folder 'junk'. Without fiddling with namespaces, this works fine: there are 91 msgs in INBOX and 2 in junk.
a namespace
- NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL a OK Namespace completed. a examine INBOX ...
- 91 EXISTS ... a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. a examine junk ...
- 2 EXISTS ... a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed.
Now I make the following addition to dovecot.conf:
namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no }
After this the inbox appears to be empty, and I cannot select the junk folder at all:
a namespace
- NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) NIL NIL a OK Namespace completed. a examine INBOX
- FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
- OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox.
- 0 EXISTS
- 0 RECENT
- OK [UIDVALIDITY 1269605071] UIDs valid
- OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
- OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. a examine INBOX.junk
- OK [CLOSED] Previous mailbox closed. a NO Mailbox doesn't exist: junk
Furthermore I can select "INBOX.INBOX" (although that's empty as well)
a examine INBOX.INBOX
- FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
- OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox.
- 0 EXISTS
- 0 RECENT
- OK [UIDVALIDITY 1269605071] UIDs valid
- OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
- OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. a examine INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
- OK [CLOSED] Previous mailbox closed. a NO Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.INBOX a examine junk a NO Unknown namespace.
Have I misunderstood what I'm supposed to be doing here?
The other relevant setting is:
mail_location: maildir:%hbut I've not changed this; as I say, this works just fine without meddling with namespaces.
Many thanks,
Brian.