I just upgraded my RH9 server with UW-IMAP to Fedora Core 2 and after a short try with Cyrus, I'm hoping to get Dovecot configured. My problem is getting Dovecot to recognize my old mbox mail folders.

It correctly shows the INBOX contents from the /var/spool/mail/davis mbox. However, I also had a bunch of mboxes such as:

/home/davis/Mail/Sent
/home/davis/Mail/Lists/list1

Reading the documentation, Dovecot indicates it will recognize mbox files within the ~/mail directory. So I moved my mail over giving:

/home/davis/mail/Sent
/home/davis/mail/Lists/list1

Unfortunately, after restarting Dovecot and restarting my IMAP client (Mozilla), I don't see anything other than my Inbox. If I create a file (/home/davis/mail/.subscriptions) with 'Sent' in it, and restart things then I can see Inbox and Sent.

This would let me have a single directory with multiple mbox files in it. However, I'm not able to get Dovecot to recurse and let me see mboxes in subfolders such as:

/home/davis/mail/Lists/list1

As well, when I first connect to Dovecot via Mozilla, I get an error saying: 'The current command did not succeed. The mail server replied "Invalid mask"'. What does this mean and how do I correct it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Guy