[Dovecot] configuration problem: maildir folders and messages not found

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 13:51 +0200, Bram Mertens wrote:
> After sending some test messages the "Maildir" folder in my home-folder
> looks like:
> m8ram at medion:~$ tree -a Maildir
> Maildir
> |-- .IN-catchall
> |   |-- cur
> |   |-- new
> |   |   `-- 1114356268.8424_0.medion
> |   `-- tmp
> |-- .IN-testing
> |   |-- cur
> |   |-- new
> |   |   |-- 1114354955.6900_0.medion
> |   |   `-- 1114356175.8292_0.medion
> |   `-- tmp

These should show up as "IN-catchall" and "IN-testing" folders.

> |-- .INBOX
> |   |-- .IN-testing
> |   |   |-- cur
> |   |   |-- new
> |   |   |   |-- 1114354955.6900_0.medion
> |   |   |   `-- 1114356175.8292_0.medion
> |   |   `-- tmp
> |   |-- .imap.index
> |   |-- .imap.index.data
> |   |-- .imap.index.log
> |   `-- .imap.index.tree

Looks like Dovecot sees your INBOX because it has created index files.
The IN-testing here isn't seen by Dovecot at all.

> |-- .customflags
> |-- IN-catchall
> |-- cur
> |-- new

New mails in INBOX should be placed in this new directory.

> Because I have been using the mbox format to test dovecot so far I had
> to modify my dovecot configuration but no matter what I try none of the
> messages above appear in evolution or thunderbird.

Are you listing only subscribed folders and haven't subscribed them?
Have you set IMAP namespace prefix? It should be empty. Sounds like
client problem in any case.

> default_mail_env = maildir:/%h/Maildir

This is correct. Except the '/' before %h isn't needed.

> I also tried the following for maildir:
> default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir
> default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir
> 
> But neither worked.

They're pretty much all equilevant.

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