Hi All,
I recently switched our Courier IMAP server over to Dovecot primarily for performance reasons. Server OS is Debian Sarge with Dovecot packages from backports.org (v 1.0.rc2-1bpo1).
Access from Thunderbird and Horde worked fine with some shared folders defined and the Courier compatibility private folder stanza. Initial testing with Mail.app showed that, although the folder listing was fetched correctly including all shared folders, no mail could be viewed with Mail.app timing out with an error about invalid namespace. (I'll post the exact error message as a follow up when I can test again later).
After searching the mailing list for a while, I came upon a message suggesting adding a second private namespace like so:
namespace private { separator = . prefix = "INBOX." inbox = yes hidden = no }
namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes }
Now, this does work in a fashion and allows Mail.app to access the folders and mail. Problem with this config:
- Mail.app displays all INBOX. folders at the top level *and* below Inbox
- Thunderbird displays a spurious INBOX folder in the folder listing under Inbox.
- Horde displays folders at the top level and below Inbox.
Whilst not being a huge problem for our internal mail server, this is not optimal.
Has anyone else had these or similar problems and managed to work them out? If so, how did you configure Dovecot or the clients to all play nicely together?
I'd quite like to roll Dovecot out on our client mail server but I need to work this out first so any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Ronny
Ronny Adsetts Technical Director Amazing Internet Ltd, London t: +44 20 8607 9535 f: +44 20 8607 9536 w: www.amazinginternet.com