[Dovecot] Unwanted INBOX. prefix issues
I have a strange problem. I installed Dovecot and had my trash folder and such in the root of my maildir, and everything was working great. I then installed SquirrelMail which created folders in with the INBOX. prefix. I manually removed these from the maildir, but the INBOX.Trash is still shown in the folder listing of Thunderbird. This leads to some strange behavior, such as the delete button not working. Is there a way I can reset the folder list, and take the INBOX.* items out? Any help would be appreciated.
Regards, Kevin
Den 26-03-2007 08:29, Kevin Bowling skrev:
I have a strange problem. I installed Dovecot and had my trash folder and such in the root of my maildir, and everything was working great. I then installed SquirrelMail which created folders in with the INBOX. prefix. I manually removed these from the maildir, but the INBOX.Trash is still shown in the folder listing of Thunderbird. This leads to some strange behavior, such as the delete button not working. Is there a way I can reset the folder list, and take the INBOX.* items out? Any help would be appreciated.
Check the subscriptions file in your maildir - remove any references to folders which are not present, or that you do not want to appear as default on your imap clients.
Further there might be some caching on your Thunderbird client, so if it doesn't help removing the entries from the subscription file - try to open thunderbird, right-click on the imap account, and choose the upper-most choice (in Norwegian it says "Meld inn", which probably originally/in English is "Subscribe" or something similar.) - Make sure to uncheck the checkboxes behind any folders which you do not want to subscribe to (I believe this might alter you subscribtions file also on the server, not sure though.) - Anyway, I've seen some glitches in some versions of Thunderbird where duplicate folders are shown on start up, and the there is a refresh and the duplicates are gone.
Hope this helps :)
-- Regards, Christian
On 3/25/07, Christian Skarby christian.skarby@interhost.no wrote:
Den 26-03-2007 08:29, Kevin Bowling skrev:
I have a strange problem. I installed Dovecot and had my trash folder and such in the root of my maildir, and everything was working great. I then installed SquirrelMail which created folders in with the INBOX. prefix. I manually removed these from the maildir, but the INBOX.Trash is still shown in the folder listing of Thunderbird. This leads to some strange behavior, such as the delete button not working. Is there a way I can reset the folder list, and take the INBOX.* items out? Any help would be appreciated.
Check the subscriptions file in your maildir - remove any references to folders which are not present, or that you do not want to appear as default on your imap clients.
I was able to remove the offending folder from the subscriptions folder, however a new problem appeared. Thunderbird now no longer lists an Inbox folder. All the mail is there, and Tunderbird even shows it when it is first started. However, there is no way to switch back to the Inbox folder. Any pointers on telling the root folder to display as Inbox?
Den 26-03-2007 08:59, Kevin Bowling skrev:
On 3/25/07, Christian Skarby christian.skarby@interhost.no wrote:
I have a strange problem. I installed Dovecot and had my trash folder and such in the root of my maildir, and everything was working great. I
installed SquirrelMail which created folders in with the INBOX.
Den 26-03-2007 08:29, Kevin Bowling skrev: then prefix. I
manually removed these from the maildir, but the INBOX.Trash is still shown in the folder listing of Thunderbird. This leads to some strange behavior, such as the delete button not working. Is there a way I can reset the folder list, and take the INBOX.* items out? Any help would be appreciated.
Check the subscriptions file in your maildir - remove any references to folders which are not present, or that you do not want to appear as default on your imap clients.
I was able to remove the offending folder from the subscriptions folder, however a new problem appeared. Thunderbird now no longer lists an Inbox folder. All the mail is there, and Tunderbird even shows it when it is first started. However, there is no way to switch back to the Inbox folder. Any pointers on telling the root folder to display as Inbox?
Please read http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces and related documentation.
-- Regards, Christian
On 3/26/07, Christian Skarby christian.skarby@interhost.no wrote:
Den 26-03-2007 08:59, Kevin Bowling skrev:
On 3/25/07, Christian Skarby christian.skarby@interhost.no wrote:
I have a strange problem. I installed Dovecot and had my trash folder and such in the root of my maildir, and everything was working great. I
installed SquirrelMail which created folders in with the INBOX.
Den 26-03-2007 08:29, Kevin Bowling skrev: then prefix. I
manually removed these from the maildir, but the INBOX.Trash is still shown in the folder listing of Thunderbird. This leads to some strange behavior, such as the delete button not working. Is there a way I can reset the folder list, and take the INBOX.* items out? Any help would be appreciated.
Check the subscriptions file in your maildir - remove any references to folders which are not present, or that you do not want to appear as default on your imap clients.
I was able to remove the offending folder from the subscriptions folder, however a new problem appeared. Thunderbird now no longer lists an Inbox folder. All the mail is there, and Tunderbird even shows it when it is first started. However, there is no way to switch back to the Inbox folder. Any pointers on telling the root folder to display as Inbox?
Please read http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces and related documentation.
A quick restart of Dovecot fixed this one. Thanks for you assistance, all is well again!
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