We just changed from UW imap last night and one of our bigger problems right now is that the ~/mail/ compatibility namespace doesn't seem to work. dovecot 2.0.8

Dec 15 12:01:52 zen.engr.oregonstate.edu dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.warning] imap(tom2): Warning: Subscriptions file /nfs/rack/u4/t/tom2/mail/.subscriptions: Ignoring invalid entry: ~/mail/foo1/folder1 Dec 15 12:01:52 zen.engr.oregonstate.edu dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.warning] imap(tom2): Warning: Subscriptions file /nfs/rack/u4/t/tom2/mail/.subscriptions: Ignoring invalid entry: ~tom2/mail/foo1/folder1

from .subscriptions: ~/mail/foo1/folder1 ~tom2/mail/foo1/folder1

in 10-mail.conf namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } # for backwards compatibility: namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = mail/ hidden = yes list = no } namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = ~/mail/ hidden = yes list = no } namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = ~%u/mail/ hidden = yes list = no }

What's funny is that it appears to work with a preauthenticated session or by using openssl to connect to port 993.

1 list "~/mail/" *

• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/testfolder"
• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/Trash"
• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/Sent"
• LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "~/mail/foo1"
• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/foo1/folder1"
• LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "~/mail/foo2"
• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/foo2/folder1" 1 OK List completed.

1 select ~/mail/foo2/folder1

• OK [CLOSED] Previous mailbox closed.
• FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
• OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
• 1 EXISTS
• 0 RECENT
• OK [UIDVALIDITY 1274985137] UIDs valid
• OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID
• OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest 1 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.

We're seeing this with at least thunderbird and outlook.

thank you

Tom Lieuallen Oregon State University