[Dovecot] Subfolders with Thunderbird and maildir?
I setup a test dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 and left most of the settings as the defaults. In Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 Windows, when I tried to create a subfolder named "subfolder" under INBOX, it showed up as the same level a INBOX and with the name "INBOX^subfolder".
I was able to manually create a subfolder using "mkdir ~/mail/test_manual_subfolder; touch ~/mail_test_subfolder/blah" and then subscribing to it. That's too much work. :)
Now when I try to create a subfolder of a non-inbox folder, nothing happens (not even an error).
Screen shot: http://img452.imageshack.us/my.php?image=subfoldersthunderbird15ao6.png
The Dovecot system is Fedora Core 5 x86 and an NFS client for /home. I'm considering switching from Trustix, UW-IMAP, and mbox. I'm also considering changing INBOX to a Maildir (not /var/spool/mail/%u).
Andrew
Andrew Z wrote:
I setup a test dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 and left most of the settings as the defaults. In Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 Windows, when I tried to create a subfolder named "subfolder" under INBOX, it showed up as the same level a INBOX and with the name "INBOX^subfolder".
I was able to manually create a subfolder using "mkdir ~/mail/test_manual_subfolder; touch ~/mail_test_subfolder/blah" and then subscribing to it. That's too much work. :)
Now when I try to create a subfolder of a non-inbox folder, nothing happens (not even an error).
Screen shot: http://img452.imageshack.us/my.php?image=subfoldersthunderbird15ao6.png
The Dovecot system is Fedora Core 5 x86 and an NFS client for /home. I'm considering switching from Trustix, UW-IMAP, and mbox. I'm also considering changing INBOX to a Maildir (not /var/spool/mail/%u).
Just a quick question:
In Account settings Server Settings Advanced for your account, have you unchecked "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages"?
If you are using Maildir this should be on, but if you're using mbox this should be off.
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Anders Lund wrote:
Andrew Z wrote:
I setup a test dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 and left most of the settings as the defaults. In Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 Windows, when I tried to create a subfolder named "subfolder" under INBOX, it showed up as the same level a INBOX and with the name "INBOX^subfolder".
I was able to manually create a subfolder using "mkdir ~/mail/test_manual_subfolder; touch ~/mail_test_subfolder/blah" and then subscribing to it. That's too much work. :)
Now when I try to create a subfolder of a non-inbox folder, nothing happens (not even an error).
Screen shot: http://img452.imageshack.us/my.php?image=subfoldersthunderbird15ao6.png
The Dovecot system is Fedora Core 5 x86 and an NFS client for /home. I'm considering switching from Trustix, UW-IMAP, and mbox. I'm also considering changing INBOX to a Maildir (not /var/spool/mail/%u).
Just a quick question:
In Account settings Server Settings Advanced for your account, have you unchecked "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages"?
If you are using Maildir this should be on, but if you're using mbox this should be off.
The setting is on (the default). In the test above, I had default_mail_env set to blank and it looks like it created an mbox in ~/mail. Just now, I tried default_mail_env=~/mail , and the non-inbox subfolders worked OK. However, the subfolder of INBOX still showed up as INBOX^subfolder.
Andrew
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