[Dovecot] Unable To Move IMAP Folder (Dovecot)
I have a user who has a folder in his Maildir/ called "test"
/home/user/Maildir/.test
This folder shows up as a sub folder to his Inbox on his Thunderbird client and I tried using the "cp" command to move this over to my Maildir/ directory on the same server and when I launch Thunderbird, that folder is not visible for me. I made sure permissions are correct and even reloaded Dovecot.
mail:/home/user/Maildir# cp -R .test/ /home/me/Maildir/
mail:/home/user/Maildir# chown -R me:users .test/
The permissions and ownership seem to be identical to all the folders I created as subfolders myself but for some reason, I can NOT see "test/".
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
"CW" == Carlos Williams carloswill@gmail.com writes:
CW> This folder shows up as a sub folder to his Inbox on his
CW> Thunderbird client and I tried using the "cp" command to move this
CW> over to my Maildir/ directory on the same server and when I launch
CW> Thunderbird, that folder is not visible for me. I made sure
CW> permissions are correct and even reloaded Dovecot.
[...]
CW> Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?Maybe you need to subscribe to your new "test" folder from your Thunderbird session.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, pod pod@herald.ox.ac.uk wrote:
Maybe you need to subscribe to your new "test" folder from your Thunderbird session.
I am not sure I follow. When I am in Thunderbird and I create a new "subfolder" under my Inbox, it shows up on the emal server as:
/home/user/Maildir/.new_folder
When I do this from the client, I don't think I force my client (Thunderbird) to subscribe to the folder. When I "cp" the folder from the server, do I need to force the my client to subscribe?
Thanks for your help!
Carlos Williams wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, pod pod@herald.ox.ac.uk wrote:
Maybe you need to subscribe to your new "test" folder from your Thunderbird session.
I am not sure I follow. When I am in Thunderbird and I create a new "subfolder" under my Inbox, it shows up on the emal server as:
/home/user/Maildir/.new_folder
When I do this from the client, I don't think I force my client (Thunderbird) to subscribe to the folder. When I "cp" the folder from the server, do I need to force the my client to subscribe?
I believe in Thunderbird there is a setting (the default) to automatically subscribe to 'Thunderbird' newly created folders.
Rod
Thanks for your help!
On 10/1/2008 6:40 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
Carlos Williams wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, pod pod@herald.ox.ac.uk wrote:
Maybe you need to subscribe to your new "test" folder from your Thunderbird session.
I am not sure I follow. When I am in Thunderbird and I create a new "subfolder" under my Inbox, it shows up on the emal server as:
/home/user/Maildir/.new_folder
When I do this from the client, I don't think I force my client (Thunderbird) to subscribe to the folder. When I "cp" the folder from the server, do I need to force the my client to subscribe?
I believe in Thunderbird there is a setting (the default) to automatically subscribe to 'Thunderbird' newly created folders.
Actually, the only setting I know of in Tbird for handling subscribed folders is:
Account Settings > Server Settings > Advanced > Show only subscribed folders (checkbox)
There is a setting for automatically setting new folders to 'offline' mode.
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Best regards,
Charles
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Carlos Williams
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Charles Marcus
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pod
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Roderick A. Anderson