Hi,

I'm trying to set Dovecot up in a way that is compatible with console usage of the same mailboxes (ie, w/o IMAP). My mailboxen are almost all maildirs (I can ignore all other formats), and are laid out as follows:

INBOX = ~/Maildir

All other folders are maildirs in ~/Mail

Eg. ~/Mail/archive, ~/Mail/sent, ~/Mail/some-mailing-list

I configured this, along the lines of http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces:

# I unset 'mail_location'

namespace private { separator = '/' prefix = location = maildir:~/Maildir inbox = yes list = yes subscriptions = yes }

namespace private { separator = / prefix = archives/ location = maildir:~/Mail hidden = no #subscriptions = yes inbox = no list = yes }

which I thought should do it, but it doesn't. In TB (3, if it matters), I see:

Inbox Trash archives Trash Inbox (shaded) directory (shaded)

And that's about it. I don't see any of the pre-existing maildirs in ~/Mail. I also can't delete the two additional "Inbox" and "Trash" folders, and I can't subscribe to the second "Inbox", nor to "directory". I proceeded to create a new folder under "archives", which mostly ended up to be a new maildir + index files under ~/Mail, but it had a '.' in front of it. Also, the separator was automatically reset to '.' for the second namespace, as I found out when I renamed one of the directories from 'dir.1' to '.dir.1'.

Am I still doing something wrong, or is this a bug or limitation in Dovecot, or in this version of it?

Kind regards, --Toni++