Hi everyone, I would like to move the "Archives" Folder for every user from my default storage to another storage in the backend, while maintaining the current frontend view of the IMAP Mailboxstructure. Because I didn't manage to get it to work properly on my production server, I made a separate Testserver. My problem is, that I don't know what to put in the "prefix" section of the Namespace, so that the Archive Folder is on the same folder/mailbox hierarchy level as the ones in the default namespace (Sent Messages, Drafts ...). I have read the Namespace RFC (rfc2342) and there is one example which uses the Tilde ~ Character as the Namespace prefix - put the rfc doesn't address the tilde, it only has it in one of the examples (Example 5.4). Because ~ often means 'base folder' I thought this would work. But it doesn't. The Thunderbird client shows: Rootdir/Sent but Rootdir/~/Archive I am aware I can solve this with symlinks, but I would like to do it properly with namespaces. Could you please tell me what I am missing? In case this is an Thunderbird Issue, could you please point out, what I don't understand?

Thank you! Kind Regards Christian

dovecot --version                                        2.3.19.1 (9b53102964) dovecot -n

2.3.19.1 (9b53102964): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Pigeonhole version 0.5.19 (4eae2f79)

OS: Linux 6.1.0-25-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.7

Hostname: mailserver.lan

auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error_or_warn.log mail_gid = user mail_home = /mnt/mails/%u mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_uid = user namespace archivns { inbox = no location = maildir:/mnt/mails2/%u mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } prefix = ~/ separator = / } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file }