hello,
I know this is a question that has probably been answered before but I have searched for the answer and am yet to find it.
I am running dovecot under fedora core 2 and cannot figure out where I set it so that users can create nested folders. At the moment they can only create one subfolder in most mail clients.
however if using squirrelmail they can create nested folders but the folder whicch hosts the subfolders cannot contain mail messages as well as folders.
Is this a setting in IMAP or with the mail clients.
Many Thanks,
melinda
On 2004-09-22 09:19:45 +1000, Melinda Taylor wrote:
I am running dovecot under fedora core 2 and cannot figure out where I set it so that users can create nested folders. At the moment they can only create one subfolder in most mail clients.
thunderbird right click on account "new folder" -> "foo" -> right click on "foo" -> "new subfolder" -> "bar"
now i have "foo/bar"
on disk it looks like ~/Maildir/.foo ~/Maildir/.foo.bar
if you use mbox you cant have folders inside of folders which contain mails.
so long.
darix
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http://www.irssi.de/Sorry I probably didn't explain myself well enough. I know *how* to create folders in the clients it just that making nested folders which contain both mail and subfolders is not allowed. I guessed it had something to do with mbox vs maildir but where do you specify the use of maildir over mbox.
I tried setting:
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/mail
in dovecot.conf and it still wouldn't allow me to make nested folders.
Ta :)
melinda
Marcus Rueckert wrote:
On 2004-09-22 09:19:45 +1000, Melinda Taylor wrote:
I am running dovecot under fedora core 2 and cannot figure out where I set it so that users can create nested folders. At the moment they can only create one subfolder in most mail clients.
thunderbird right click on account "new folder" -> "foo" -> right click on "foo" -> "new subfolder" -> "bar"
now i have "foo/bar"
on disk it looks like ~/Maildir/.foo ~/Maildir/.foo.bar
if you use mbox you cant have folders inside of folders which contain mails.
so long.
darix
Melinda Taylor wrote:
Sorry I probably didn't explain myself well enough. I know *how* to create folders in the clients it just that making nested folders which contain both mail and subfolders is not allowed. I guessed it had something to do with mbox vs maildir but where do you specify the use of maildir over mbox.
I tried setting:
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/mail
in dovecot.conf and it still wouldn't allow me to make nested folders.
Ta :)
melinda
Melinda,
what local delivery agent (LDA) are you using? you'll most likely need to configure *it* to use Maildir format as well.
my setup uses procmail as the LDA and I've configured the /etc/procmailrc file with "DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/" (note trailing slash) to tell it to use Maildir format.
it may be that simple. please check the appropriate documentation for the applications you're using.
hope this helps
alan
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