Hi! Thanks for the fast reply. I have had no namespaces, now I tried to insert the namespace-exampe for uw-compatibility, unfortunately, that was no help. I restarted dovecot and thunderbird, but it cannot find the default folders. I always get "NONEXISTENT" message. Creating new folders work. Moving mail to the new folders work, too.

The inbox is there, too. I can see in the "_"-folder a directory "Maildir and subdirectories named __Sent, __Junk and so on.

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:18:59 +0200 Von: Pascal Volk user+dovecot@localhost.localdomain.org An: Dovecot Mailing List dovecot@dovecot.org Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird does not find the right folders :-(

        On 09/15/2009 10:10 AM sterkel@gmx.de wrote:

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Moika,

Overnight, I migrated my user-mails from uw-imap to dovecot-maildir. I used the uw2dovecot.pl script to convert all mails and changed exim, too. Receiving mails works fine allready, but nobody can access the usual subscribed folders with thunderbird. Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a folder called "_" (underline). People getting mad about me as the cannot find their stuff any more in the usual folders.

What can I do that they have the converted stuff in the same folders as they had before?

Have you configured any namespace? If so, please provide the output from dovecot -n. If not, you could try it with setting up namespaces: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP

Regards, Pascal

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Hi, I tested a bit on another system and read the migration documentations up and down.

So, how we solved it without misconfiguring dovecot: We moved all folders within the application from the strange "_" directory up to the "normal" directory, now it works. Maybe not the real best solution, but a working one. Only one user had no problems, he only had a 6GB INBOX :-)

And now its really damn fast! I have read that its fast, but its even that fast that the users notice it.

Thanks alot so far!

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:24:03 -0400 Von: Charles Marcus CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com An: dovecot@dovecot.org Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird does not find the right folders :-(

        On 9/15/2009, sterkel@gmx.de (sterkel@gmx.de) wrote:

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People getting mad about me as the cannot find their stuff any more in the usual folders.

So you performed a migration on a live system without testing it first?

I'd get mad at you too! ;)

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Best regards,

Charles

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