Timo Sirainen said at 03/08/2006 22:05:
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 11:03 +0100, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
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).
I guess the invalid namespace problem should be fixed somehow..
I'll try and get an IMAP log of the error. It will be next week though.
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 }
There can be only one namespace with inbox=yes. Also set location to point to some empty directory, something like:
location = mbox:~/.emptydir
Removing the 'inbox = yes' option from the second private stanza causes Mail.app to misbehave once more (I'll confirm this when I do more testing next week).
Thanks.
Ronny
Ronny Adsetts Technical Director Amazing Internet Ltd, London t: +44 20 8607 9535 f: +44 20 8607 9536 w: www.amazinginternet.com