Hello Aki,

the command works and shows the full path to the folder. However, "dovecot mailbox list -s -u <username> <mailbox-wildcard>" did not list the mailbox, so I tried to subscribe to it. It's listed now, but I still cannot subscribe to it using Thunderbird.

I'm using dovecot to archive my emails locally, using getmail to receive mails from my provider and managing these using Thunderbird (IMAP-Server: local Dovecot, SMTP-Server: remote).

Kind regards, Peter

Am 05.02.22 um 21:22 schrieb Aki Tuomi:

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On 05/02/2022 12:08 Peter Nabbefeld<peter.nabbefeld@gmx.de> wrote:

Hello,

as I need a mailbox locally only just for filtering, I've tried to manually create it (using Maildir as backend):

1. Created a folder in the appropriate location under /home/vmail with subfolders cur, new, tmp.
2. Set the same user:group as for the other folders (i.e. vmail:vmail).
3. Restarted Dovecot and Email-Client (Thunderbird).

However, I cannot subscribe to the new folder. What am I missing here?

Kind regards, Peter You sure you put it in right place?

You can check the path with

doveadm mailbox path -u username MailboxName

it does not have to exist to check the path.

Aki