[Dovecot] using mbox but, can't create subfolders
Hi,
I'm using mbox format w/ dovecot 1.0b3. I tried moving over my mail from a uw-imap server. Everything works fine except I can't create subfolders. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this a limitation of dovecot? How can I fix this?
Thanks,
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blaq b0x wrote:
Hi,
I'm using mbox format w/ dovecot 1.0b3. I tried moving over my mail from a uw-imap server. Everything works fine except I can't create subfolders. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this a limitation of dovecot? How can I fix this?
Are you trying to create a subfolder with the same name as an existing mailbox? mbox can not do this.
Or is it that you can't create any at all? If so, what is the error message returned when you do this? What do the logs say?
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
Well,
I noticed that the "Let this folder contain subfolders" check box is gone in the Folder options. How do I get this back.
Thanks,
Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net wrote: blaq b0x wrote:
Hi,
I'm using mbox format w/ dovecot 1.0b3. I tried moving over my mail from a uw-imap server. Everything works fine except I can't create subfolders. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this a limitation of dovecot? How can I fix this?
Are you trying to create a subfolder with the same name as an existing mailbox? mbox can not do this.
Or is it that you can't create any at all? If so, what is the error message returned when you do this? What do the logs say?
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
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blaq b0x wrote:
Well,
I noticed that the "Let this folder contain subfolders" check box is gone in the Folder options. How do I get this back.
That's an issue for your mail client.
mbox uses a single file to hold all the messages in a "folder". A sub-folder is just a directory. So, it's not possible, in "standard" mbox, for a sub-folder itself to contain messages - a directory can't hold messages.
Some systems use a hidden extension so you can have subfolders with the same name as a mailbox. I'm pretty sure Eudora and Thunderbird do this for their local storage.
In Maildir, the file layout is somewhat more complex, but the spec is such that you can have folders containing messages and subfolders. It does this by only having one level of directories, and the directory names being Maildir/.subfolder.subfolder.folder, with cur, new, and tmp underneath that.
In theory, there's no reason a mail store couldn't be devised that created mbox names in this same fashion.
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
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