Bill Cole wrote:

Andreas Meyer wrote, On 3/21/09 11:16 AM:

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Hello!

I tried to setup dovecot to work with IMAP and POP3 but when I connect with Squirrelmail, I get an error saying CREATE "INBOX.Sent" reason: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes

That's for user7, right?

The cause of that error is SquirrelMail (using IMAP) is trying to create a mailbox as a child of INBOX, but since user7 is defined as using mbox format, that fails. If you use mbox storage, an IMAP folder can have either messages or subfolders but never both, because when using mbox an IMAP folder containing messages is a file, while an IMAP folder containing subfolders is a directory. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox for more info.

There *should* be some way to make SquirrelMail stop trying to create its folders under INBOX, but I have no idea if there actually *is* one. Some IMAP servers only allow the creation of folders as children of INBOX, and as a result some (broken) IMAP clients only know how to create folders that way. You can accommodate such software in Dovecot by using namespaces.

Run the squirrelmail configure program and change the "default folder prefix" to blank under "folder defaults".

~Seth

Gary V <mr88talent@gmail.com> schrieb:

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Run the squirrelmail configure program and change the "default folder prefix" to blank under "folder defaults".

~Seth

When I set up a squirrellmail with Dovecot, on the configuration pade id option D.

D. Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

I write in 'dovecot', and it sets a number of setting for me, for example:

Please select your IMAP server: bincimap = Binc IMAP server courier = Courier IMAP server cyrus = Cyrus IMAP server dovecot = Dovecot Secure IMAP server exchange = Microsoft Exchange IMAP server hmailserver = hMailServer macosx = Mac OS X Mailserver mercury32 = Mercury/32 uw = University of Washington's IMAP server

quit        = Do not change anything

Command >> dovecot

          imap_server_type = dovecot
     default_folder_prefix = <none>
              trash_folder = Trash
               sent_folder = Sent
              draft_folder = Drafts
        show_prefix_option = false
      default_sub_of_inbox = false

show_contain_subfolders_option = false optional_delimiter = detect delete_folder = false

Yes, this is what I get too and the default_folder_prefix is empty.

-- Andreas Meyer

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Hello!

Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> schrieb:

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:27:54PM +0100, Andreas Meyer wrote:

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Yes, this is what I get too and the default_folder_prefix is empty.

I run dovecot with pop3, imap and squirrelmail with no problems.

The major difference I see between your dovecot -n and mine other than the fact that you have 1.0.5 and I have 1.2.beta3 is that I have

Yes, this is a SuSE-rpm from openSuSE10.3

mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

In other words, I specify one file for the INBOX and another directory for everything else. I don't think this works with maildir though.

I have the beast running. I found out that I had to create a directory where dovecot can write indexes and such things to.

# dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot1 protocols: imap imaps pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:/var/spool/vhosts/%d/dovecotprivate/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vhosts/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd

So in dovecotprivate directories for the indexes are stored for mbox-users. This works, I had to set permissions to 777 for dovecotprivate so that dovecot can write into it. I don't know if this is a security-risk.

The /etc/dovecot/passwd then looks like this:

# anup.de (maildir) mail@anup.de:{PLAIN}passwd:5000:5000::/var/spool/vhosts/anup.de/mail::userdb_mail=maildir:~/ user@anup.de:{PLAIN}passwd:5000:5000::/var/spool/vhosts/anup.de/user::userdb_mail=maildir:~/

# anup.de (mbox) user7@anup.de:{PLAIN}passwd7:5000:5000 user8@anup.de:{PLAIN}passwd8:5000:5000

Works great and dovecot can handle both maildir and mbox for one domain. And this solved also the problem with Squirrelmail. The setup is not fully testet yet.

Thank you all!

Andreas Meyer

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