[dovecot] Folders with mail and subfolders
I have a maildir hierarchy (built originally with Courier-IMAP) where some folders contain both email and subfolders. Using Dovecot I cannot see the mail in the top folders: I can only see the subfolders.
Is this an RFC restriction or a Dovecot restriction? If the latter, is it planned to change?
Otherwise: just started using Dovecot, and I'm very impressed with the speed of it. Thanks!
Keith
Keith Edmunds wrote:
I have a maildir hierarchy (built originally with Courier-IMAP) where some folders contain both email and subfolders. Using Dovecot I cannot see the mail in the top folders: I can only see the subfolders.
Is this an RFC restriction or a Dovecot restriction? If the latter, is it planned to change?
Far as I know, that's usually a client-side issue. I had the same thing come up when I was using Cyrus where a folder can hold either messages or more folders. Netscape has an option where you can have both or they're mutually exclusive.
Nowadays, I'm using mbox, so they're sorta mutually exclusive. ;)
--Ian.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:04:25 -0700 "Ian R. Justman" <ianj@ian-justman.com> wrote:
Keith Edmunds wrote:
I have a maildir hierarchy (built originally with Courier-IMAP) where some folders contain both email and subfolders. Using Dovecot I cannot see the mail in the top folders: I can only see the subfolders.
Is this an RFC restriction or a Dovecot restriction? If the latter, is it planned to change?
Far as I know, that's usually a client-side issue. I had the same thing come up when I was using Cyrus where a folder can hold either messages or more folders. Netscape has an option where you can have both or they're mutually exclusive.
I'm using the same client (sylpheed-claws) with both Dovecot and Courier-IMAP. Dovecot does not seem to allow both messages and folders within folders whereas Courier-IMAP does. Is there some setup I can change to allow both?
-- Keith Edmunds
On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:46, Keith Edmunds wrote:
I'm using the same client (sylpheed-claws) with both Dovecot and Courier-IMAP. Dovecot does not seem to allow both messages and folders within folders whereas Courier-IMAP does. Is there some setup I can change to allow both?
I didn't notice problems with Sylpheed-claws + CVS Dovecot. Subfolders were somewhat broken in 0.99.8.1 though, there's a patch for it at http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/list.patch
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:46:39PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:04:25 -0700 "Ian R. Justman" <ianj@ian-justman.com> wrote:
Keith Edmunds wrote:
I have a maildir hierarchy (built originally with Courier-IMAP) where some folders contain both email and subfolders. Using Dovecot I cannot see the mail in the top folders: I can only see the subfolders.
Is this an RFC restriction or a Dovecot restriction? If the latter, is it planned to change?
Far as I know, that's usually a client-side issue. I had the same thing come up when I was using Cyrus where a folder can hold either messages or more folders. Netscape has an option where you can have both or they're mutually exclusive.
I'm using the same client (sylpheed-claws) with both Dovecot and Courier-IMAP. Dovecot does not seem to allow both messages and folders within folders whereas Courier-IMAP does. Is there some setup I can change to allow both?
If you connected, using sylpheed, to an older version of dovecot that wasn't permitting this (0.99.7, f'rinstance), then you might need to edit the folderlist.xml (for sylpheed). There's a flag on a folder ("nomail"?) that gets set, and rebuilding the folder tree won't fix it, but you can remove the flag by hand and then it's fine (with the Debian 0.99.8.1 updates, at any rate, and prolly with current cvs).
Amy!
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