Hi -

I had been running an Ubuntu 12.04 system on which I receive email, with an inbox in /var/mail/ and a bunch of folders under ~/Maildir. When I upgraded from 14.04 there were a bunch of questions about keeping old/new config files and my muddling through it has me seeing only the inbox, and then a Drafts, Sent and Trash Folder.

I would like to regain access to the messages stored under ~/Maildir, but have been thoroughly unsuccessful. I seem to run into duplicate prefix issues and I suspect I have other issues, when I try to add:

namespace rest { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:~/Maildir }

to what is already present. I've seen a few of the wiki pages, but not fully understanding what is going-on I'm afraid I've not groked them terribly well.

any help/pointers for this cluser would be much appreciated.

rick jones

raj@tardy:~$ dovecot --version 2.2.9

raj@tardy:~$ dovecot -n # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:25: 'imaps' protocol is no longer necessary, remove it doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:732: protocol managesieve {} has been replaced by protocol sieve { } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:904: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:942: passdb pam {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=pam } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:1055: userdb passwd {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=passwd } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:1117: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } # OS: Linux 3.13.0-95-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth { user = root } ssl_cert =