[Dovecot] new to dovecot, dealing with MH foders
Hello,
I'm sorry if this is a repeat, a few choice searches into google didn't help and I found no search for the archives.
I can no longer put of moving away from UW-IMAP. Dovecot certainly seems to be the right choice, but I am having problems getting it to do what I need it to for all my mail. The machine is running the dist version, 0.99.12.
I have a system mailbox and a large MH mail tree (~25K messages.) I saw that dovecot didn't support mh trees like UW did. It looked like maildir would be a good common target. So I found a script that would convert the mbox to maildir and have adjusted postfix, and that all works fine. Then I found mh2maildir, and ran it over my entire mh tree. Then I tried just for a test copying one of the small top level directories under ~/Maildir, but my MUA (mulberry) doesn't see it.
So how do I get dovecot to see things other than the inbox in maildir format? How can I easily test to see if it's dovecot's problem or the MUA?
thanks for any help, jerry
Jerry Scharf laguna way consulting
jerry scharf wrote:
Then I found mh2maildir, and ran it over my entire mh tree. Then I tried just for a test copying one of the small top level directories under ~/Maildir, but my MUA (mulberry) doesn't see it.
That script worked a treat for me. My MUAs are Thunderbird and mutt on OS/X & Solaris.
I did briefly try Mulberry but I couldn't get it to understand IMAP folders / subfolders when served by dovecot (1.0 test-something). It ceretainly didn't just work out of the box like mutt & Thunderbird did.
Dunno if it is just a case of configuring Mulberry right or if there is some deeper problem, but the combo of mulberry / dovecot / IMAP subfolders has caused problems for me.
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:36 -0800, jerry scharf wrote:
So how do I get dovecot to see things other than the inbox in maildir format? How can I easily test to see if it's dovecot's problem or the MUA?
The directory layout is in Maildir++ format. That mostly means that the maildir directory name must begin with '.'. You could try creating some mailboxes with your IMAP client to see how it gets written to filesystem.
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