On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:13 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies.
I have the following in dovecot.conf:- default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Looks ok.
IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems.
Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and folders that it's created itself?
You didn't have IMAP server installed before Dovecot? Either client has specified a wrong IMAP namespace, or it's simply just that it's showing only subscribed mailboxes and you've not subscribed to any. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MissingMailboxes may help some more.