[dovecot] Re: some problem with dovecot

[Farkas Levente]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas at bnap.hu>
To: <dovecot at procontrol.fi>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: [dovecot] some problem with dovecot


> hi,
> yesterday we switch to courir to dovecot the whole company. there is good
> and bad news. the good one that about 200 people use outlook and outlook
> works fine (after we make some registry hack to delete the INBOX form imap
> root folder, which was required for courier but not for dovecot). the bad
> news we try most of the thing before the switch except outself. since the
> whole it department use linux and mozilla. and almost nothing is working
> with mozilla:
> - first of all the folder list can't be subscribed i.e. only the top level
> folder can be subscribed. can't subscribe to folder which has subfolders
and
> mail inside. all folders with has subfolders shonw as an empty name folder
> under itself. and you can't select these folders in mozilla's subscribe
> window (i.e you are not able to check it even it is there).
> - you can't send any messages!!! since mozilla can't find the Sent folder
> and can't move the mail after sending!!! even if you reconfigure mozilla
to
> use that "Sent" folder as Sent folder.
> - you can't see the mails in a folder which has subfolders i.e. it seem
> there is no message in that folders.
> - we store mails in ~/Maildir/. dovecot create a ~/Maildir/.INBOX and put
> the index files of the ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} into that folder but for
all
> other folders it keep the index files in that folder's directory. it's
realy
> confusing.
>
> this is _very_ anoying:-(((
> is there any dirty trick to use mozilla?
> when thses will be useable?
>
> thanks.

other probles, that the outlook express can't be used when the folders
contains big messages (it's died during send/recv), but if we switch folder
setting headers only than it's works correctly.