El Miércoles, 22 de Octubre de 2008 a las 04:04, David London escribió:

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Thanks Laurent (and Charles re the age of the dovecot software),

It looks like we've got what you say is needed (see configuration file below). In addition the test accounts are brand new ones on the test system, not ones that have been moved over so .mailboxlist is not there - just .subscriptions

Maybe what I'm trying to do is just not possible ...

You can get it in the client. For example, in thunderbird, in Server settings->advanced should be something like "IMAP server directory" (I'm using an spanish version of thunderbird, so don't know the exact english name for the option). Similar options exists for other clients.

HTH.

Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.

Thanks Jose,

Yes in the advanced options on email clients there is always a place to put the root folder path or (some similar name) and on the old server I used ~/mail/ in all of the email clients (thunderbird, outlook, seamonkey etc) and that worked fine.

Doing that on the new dovecot based server produces the effect I've described - a folder called mail visible at the same level as inbox and the other IMAP folders inside that. On the older imapd based server doing the same thing produced a view of inbox with no mail folder ... just the IMAP folders in it displayed at the same level as inbox.

Regards,

David