Tomas Kuliavas wrote:

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Hi!

I'm currently trying to migrate from courier-imapd to dovecot... Unfortunately I'm experiences some difficulties here... Since I don't want any user to notice the change of the server backend I've tried changing the namespace in dovecot.conf to

namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no }

With this setting almost everything works fine! Almost... ;-) Squirrelmail won't show 'INBOX' on the left side of the folder tree... If I configure dovecot without the 'INBOX.' prefix it works fine in Squirrelmail, except that all other eMail clients show all sub-folders as a sub-folder of root and not the inbox...

root \- inbox \- sent \- trash \- drafts \- private \- spam

instead of root \- inbox | \- sent | \- trash | \- drafts | \- private | \- spam

any Idea what could be wrong? I've read the wiki about the courier-migration and also tried the conversion script ... but something is wrong I'm afraid...

You have contacted wrong list. Display of inbox subfolders depends on used SquirrelMail version and other SquirrelMail settings. You haven't provided information about your SquirrelMail version and used preset.

I'm using Squirrelmail 1.5.1 CVS version and I've patched "functions/imap_mailbox.php" because it looks like if squirrel can't find the 'INBOX' folder so I add it if it there's none... But I've found another "problem"... Outlook or Outlook Express both add the "INBOX" Folder to the 'subscriptions' file. I don't really know if this is necessary - but in Thunderbird and Squirrelmail I then have an subfolder of inbox which is called 'INBOX'! i can unsubscribe from the folder then it's gone... until I open any of the Outlook clients... Is this maybe a namespace problem??

Tomas Kuliavas wrote:

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Hi!

I'm currently trying to migrate from courier-imapd to dovecot... Unfortunately I'm experiences some difficulties here... Since I don't want any user to notice the change of the server backend I've tried changing the namespace in dovecot.conf to

namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no }

With this setting almost everything works fine! Almost... ;-) Squirrelmail won't show 'INBOX' on the left side of the folder tree... If I configure dovecot without the 'INBOX.' prefix it works fine in Squirrelmail, except that all other eMail clients show all sub-folders as a sub-folder of root and not the inbox...

root \- inbox \- sent \- trash \- drafts \- private \- spam

instead of root \- inbox | \- sent | \- trash | \- drafts | \- private | \- spam

any Idea what could be wrong? I've read the wiki about the courier-migration and also tried the conversion script ... but something is wrong I'm afraid...

You have contacted wrong list. Display of inbox subfolders depends on used SquirrelMail version and other SquirrelMail settings. You haven't provided information about your SquirrelMail version and used preset.

I'm using Squirrelmail 1.5.1 CVS version and I've patched "functions/imap_mailbox.php" because it looks like if squirrel can't find the 'INBOX' folder so I add it if it there's none... But I've found another "problem"... Outlook or Outlook Express both add the "INBOX" Folder to the 'subscriptions' file. I don't really know if this is necessary - but in Thunderbird and Squirrelmail I then have an subfolder of inbox which is called 'INBOX'! i can unsubscribe from the folder then it's gone... until I open any of the Outlook clients... Is this maybe a namespace problem??

In 1.5.1cvs inbox subfolders are listed in same tree level as inbox.

With every email client (squirrel/thunderbird/outlook express) the subfolders are listed in the same tree level as inbox when using the default dovecot namespace. that's why I'm using the courier-style namespace. with the courier-namespace style configuration squirrel didn't show the 'inbox' as a folder - that's why I patched it... the other email clients are showing the subfolders now fine as a subfolder of inbox. the main problem I have is that outlook /-express are subscribing to the folder 'INBOX' which I then see as a subfolder of inbox in Thunderbird / Squirrel. Since I don't know the IMAP protocol in detail I thought this maybe a namespace problem... maybe I'm all wrong... when using the default dovecot namespace do I have to rename all folders if I want them to be a subfolder of inbox ?