[Dovecot] displaying IMAP folders that are in ~/mail/ at same level as inbox
Hi,
We are moving our current IMAP based system to a new one with dovecot
All I can get about the current IMAP (imapd) system is: IMAP4rev1 v12.264
dovecot version is: 1.0.rc15
In the existing system I can see IMAP folders that are in ~/mail/ with many mail clients (e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook, Seamonkey and horde). These folders are presented in the client software as being at the same level as the inbox - i.e. not inside the folder "mail"
On the new system, horde webmail shows the other folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox. But ... all the other mail clients above now show a folder (directory) called mail with the imap folders inside.
Is there some way to set this up so these other mail clients see the imap folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox as we have on the old server?
Thanks,
David
David London a écrit :
In the existing system I can see IMAP folders that are in ~/mail/ with many mail clients (e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook, Seamonkey and horde). These folders are presented in the client software as being at the same level as the inbox - i.e. not inside the folder "mail"
On the new system, horde webmail shows the other folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox. But ... all the other mail clients above now show a folder (directory) called mail with the imap folders inside.
Is there some way to set this up so these other mail clients see the imap folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox as we have on the old server?
Basically, you need to use the mail_location in dovecot.conf, as such: mail_location = mbox:~/mail
You might also need to check the files ~/.mailboxlist, used by UW-IMAP, and ~/mail/.subscriptions, used by Dovecot. They contain the list of subscribed directories, relative to the root defined. For me, they were identical enough that I simply did a hardlink from one to another.
HTH,
Laurent
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David London a écrit :
In the existing system I can see IMAP folders that are in ~/mail/ with many mail clients (e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook, Seamonkey and horde). These folders are presented in the client software as being at the same level as the inbox - i.e. not inside the folder "mail"
On the new system, horde webmail shows the other folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox. But ... all the other mail clients above now show a folder (directory) called mail with the imap folders inside.
Is there some way to set this up so these other mail clients see the imap folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox as we have on the old server?
Basically, you need to use the mail_location in dovecot.conf, as such: mail_location = mbox:~/mail
You might also need to check the files ~/.mailboxlist, used by UW-IMAP, and ~/mail/.subscriptions, used by Dovecot. They contain the list of subscribed directories, relative to the root defined. For me, they were identical enough that I simply did a hardlink from one to another.
HTH,
Laurent
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 ...
The configuration file looks like this: dovecot -n
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%1u/%u: mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
Regards,
David
El Miércoles, 22 de Octubre de 2008 a las 04:04, David London escribió:
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.
El Miércoles, 22 de Octubre de 2008 a las 04:04, David London escribió:> > 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
David,
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On 10/22/2008 9:37 AM, David London wrote:
El Miércoles, 22 de Octubre de 2008 a las 04:04, David London escribió:> > 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 (thunder bird, 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
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Best regards,
Charles
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Charles Marcus
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David London
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Joseba Torre
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Laurent Blume