Re: [Dovecot] Root folder path problem
As I said previous my mail, if I don't set any value in "Root folder path" option, my sent mails are stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. These mails aren't stored "sent items" of imap section.
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:18 +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote:
I use dovecot1.x. for imap on qmail. I also use OExpress to receive my mails. My sent mails is stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express.
OK.
Therefore I set "INBOX" in "Root folder path" option.
Why? My guess is that it doesn't work because you set this.
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 23:17 +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote:
As I said previous my mail, if I don't set any value in "Root folder path" option, my sent mails are stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. These mails aren't stored "sent items" of imap section.
Oh. Is it really the "root folder path" that determines where they're stored? Sounds strage. But then again I haven't used OE for a long time.
I'd guess there should be a better way, but one possibility is for you to create a namespace with "prefix = INBOX/", "separator = /" and then configure the root folder path to be "INBOX/".
Yavuz Maslak wrote:
As I said previous my mail, if I don't set any value in "Root folder path" option, my sent mails are stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. These mails aren't stored "sent items" of imap section.
I think this is a problem with Outlook Express, not dovecot.
I remember that there is an option that specifies where to save sent mails. It's somewhere in the account setup, IIRC. You probably want to set that.
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on 7-12-2008 1:17 PM Yavuz Maslak spake the following:
As I said previous my mail, if I don't set any value in "Root folder path" option, my sent mails are stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. These mails aren't stored "sent items" of imap section.
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:18 +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote:
I use dovecot1.x. for imap on qmail. I also use OExpress to receive my mails. My sent mails is stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express.
OK.
Therefore I set "INBOX" in "Root folder path" option.
Why? My guess is that it doesn't work because you set this.
I don't think Outlook or OE has the capability to store its "work folders" out of its local mailroot. AFAIR you have to write message rules to move it.
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:11:23 -0700 Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote
on 7-12-2008 1:17 PM Yavuz Maslak spake the following:
As I said previous my mail, if I don't set any value in "Root folder path" option, my sent mails are stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. These mails aren't stored "sent items" of imap section.
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:18 +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote:
I use dovecot1.x. for imap on qmail. I also use OExpress to receive my mails. My sent mails is stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express.
OK.
Therefore I set "INBOX" in "Root folder path" option.
Why? My guess is that it doesn't work because you set this.
I don't think Outlook or OE has the capability to store its "work folders" out of its local mailroot. AFAIR you have to write message rules to move it.
OE does. In the server configuration options you can select to save Drafts, Sent Items, and Deleted Items on the server. It then lets you select which folders for each of those settings.
Jeff
on 7-14-2008 11:24 AM Jeff Grossman spake the following:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:11:23 -0700 Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote
on 7-12-2008 1:17 PM Yavuz Maslak spake the following:
As I said previous my mail, if I don't set any value in "Root folder path" option, my sent mails are stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. These mails aren't stored "sent items" of imap section.
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:18 +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote:
I use dovecot1.x. for imap on qmail. I also use OExpress to receive my mails. My sent mails is stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. OK.
Therefore I set "INBOX" in "Root folder path" option. Why? My guess is that it doesn't work because you set this.
I don't think Outlook or OE has the capability to store its "work folders" out of its local mailroot. AFAIR you have to write message rules to move it.
OE does. In the server configuration options you can select to save Drafts, Sent Items, and Deleted Items on the server. It then lets you select which folders for each of those settings.
Jeff
I guess I've just been using Thunderbird long enough to forget what OE did.
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I don't think Outlook or OE has the capability to store its "work folders" out of its local mailroot. AFAIR you have to write message rules to move it.
OE does. In the server configuration options you can select to save Drafts, Sent Items, and Deleted Items on the server. It then lets you select which folders for each of those settings.
Yeah - I have always thought that OE was one of the best IMAP clients around for dialup... (going to take heat on this...). Bear in mind it hasn't been updated since around 2001 (vista WM aside), it had decent offline sync, headers-only sync, download only when you click on the message. Thunderbird took ages to add most of these features. OE is still better for *dialup* users in my opinion because it has a better dialog showing what it's doing with hangup-the-phone-once-finished support. Thunderbird and Outlook both kind of twiddle around in the background and kind of assume that you are online permanently and disconnecting is not an issue...
Still, I use always on links, or worst case GPRS much more now so I don't care, but I have a lot of users still on dialup links (expensive ones), so OE still works better for that
Thunderbird is also appalling with attachments, downloading the whole message once so that you can read the few KB of text, then downloading the whole message AGAIN when you open up the attachment... Durr.
If thunderbird has some plugins to do autohangup of a dialup link then I'm interested to hear?
Ed W
On 7/15/2008, Ed W (lists@wildgooses.com) wrote:
Thunderbird is also appalling with attachments, downloading the whole message once so that you can read the few KB of text, then downloading the whole message AGAIN when you open up the attachment... Durr.
I don't see it doing that... are you sure?
I would very much like to see it support the ability to only download headers/text body, and NOT attachments (for IMAP) unless you explicitly download or open it.
Or, you can enable offline mode for the Inbox... but like I said, I haven't noticed it downloading attachments twice...
If thunderbird has some plugins to do autohangup of a dialup link then I'm interested to hear?
Wouldn't that be the job of your dial-up software?
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On 7/15/2008, Ed W (lists@wildgooses.com) wrote:
Thunderbird is also appalling with attachments, downloading the whole message once so that you can read the few KB of text, then downloading the whole message AGAIN when you open up the attachment... Durr.
I don't see it doing that... are you sure?
Here the behaviour is the same. Quite annoying, but I don't think it is a problem with the IMAP server, it seems to be the client. I remeber it doing that with Gmail's IMAP too, when I used it.
On 7/14/2008, Scott Silva (ssilva@sgvwater.com) wrote:
I don't think Outlook or OE has the capability to store its "work folders" out of its local mailroot. AFAIR you have to write message rules to move it.
This has always been a major problem with OL - OE will let you do it though, although its IMAP support is pretty bad too. TBird's IMAP support I've found to be very reliable.
The latest version of OL (2007) DOES finally support at least the Sent messages to be stored on an IMAP server, don't know about the rest.
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Charles Marcus
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Ed W
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Jeff Grossman
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Scott Silva
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Timo Sirainen
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Yavuz Maslak