Hi there.

I have dovecot 1.2.17 installed on me system.

I'd like to create a gmail-esque imap tree where all imap folders except for the inbox are in a subdirectory(?). More importantly, I'd like the email client (specifically thunderbird) to be able to recognise the folders and thusly give it a special trash/junk/etc icon which I presume also makes trash and junk go to, well the truash and junk folders automagically. Based on searching the web, I believe that namespaces are the solution. I believed that I had set it up to be

1. Inbox
2. IMAP
   • Drafts
   • Junk
   • Trash
   • etc

However, when trying to use namespaces, I get IMAP.Drafts, IMAP.Junk and all the other folders also appearing in INBOX, in addition to another top-level IMAP.*. What am I doing wrong? If I understand the solutions posted on the web correctly, solving this (resulting in only one of each type of folder) should make thunderbird automagically recognise these "special folders".

This is my configuration:

# 1.2.17: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) ext3
ssl_ca_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
first_valid_uid: *[removed]*
last_valid_uid: *[removed]*
first_valid_gid: *[removed]*
last_valid_gid: *[removed]*
mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/%d/%n
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): autocreate
mail_plugins(imap): autocreate
mail_plugins(pop3):
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail
imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
namespace:
   type: private
   separator: .
   prefix: INBOX.
   inbox: yes
   list: yes
   subscriptions: yes
namespace:
   type: private
   separator: .
   prefix: IMAP.
   list: yes
   subscriptions: yes
lda:
   postmaster_address: postmaster@example.com
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   user: dovecot-auth
   passdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/mysql.conf
   userdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/mysql.conf
   socket:
     type: listen
     client:
       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
       mode: 509
       user: postfix
       group: postfix
plugin:
   autocreate: IMAP.Trash
   autocreate2: IMAP.Spam
   autocreate3: IMAP.Sent Mail
   autocreate4: IMAP.Drafts
   autosubscribe: IMAP.Trash
   autosubscribe2: IMAP.Spam
   autosubscribe3: IMAP.Sent Mail
   autosubscribe4: IMAP.Drafts

Any help appreciated.

Cheers.