i have been running postfix + courier-imap + cyrus sasl for several years and have some prior experience with dovecot + postfix and had no problems. now that i'm trying to convert an existing courier-imap configuration to dovecot and all the various parts work together (e.g. mail delivery and dovecot sasl), i cannot get the folder subscription issue sorted.

the machine is running netbsd 4.1 + postfix 2.5.1 + dovecot 1.0.13.

searching for a bit yields the following useful links

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration http://marc.info/?l=dovecot&m=120592911416484&w=2

i have downloaded and run the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script and that does not do the trick, nor does following it up with the suggested changes in the private namespace.

an example of one of the maildirs i have at hand is

mail# ls -al

total 1580 drwx------ 71 vmail users 2560 Jun 27 13:47 . drwx------ 24 vmail users 512 May 28 14:10 .. drwx------ 6 vmail users 512 Jun 27 12:10 .Drafts drwx------ 5 vmail users 512 Jun 27 13:17 .INBOX.Trash drwx------ 6 vmail users 512 Jun 27 12:45 .RT drwx------ 6 vmail users 512 Jun 27 12:50 .Sent drwx------ 6 vmail users 512 Jun 27 12:46 .Trash drwx------ 6 vmail users 512 Jun 27 12:45 .Trash.bro drwx------ 6 vmail users 512 Jun 27 12:45 .associates ....

and the subscriptions file, after courier-dovecot-migrate.pl runs is

Trash Sent Drafts associates ....

based on the folder subscriptions, i have attempted to move the folders preceded by a '.' to the same name without a '.'. this does not fix the problem either.

any clues on how to fix this issue would be welcome.

cheers, jake