I am currently using Squirrelmail and Dovecot with this setting:

default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=%h/mail/INBOX

It works well, however folder subscriptions in Squirrelmail annoyingly end up with "./" prefixes because Squirrelmail refuses to work without overriding the folder namespace. All of my other IMAP clients work fine without setting that option.

Squirrelmail's default setting is this: $default_folder_prefix = './mail';

This setting breaks Squirrelmail: $default_folder_prefix = '';

This setting becomes default if you attempt to blank that user's preference: $default_folder_prefix = './';

The end result of this is duplicate entries in .subscriptions, one with "./" prefix and one without. Most IMAP clients handle this by showing all the folders again in a folder named ".", or Mozilla displays all folders twice. =(

When I asked one of the squirrelmail developers, he said that this might be a dovecot specific problem. Any ideas?

Warren Togami warren@togami.com