[Dovecot] Migrating from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot

[Tomas Kuliavas]

>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm currently trying to migrate from courier-imapd to dovecot...
>>> Unfortunately I'm experiences some difficulties here...
>>> Since I don't want any user to notice the change of the server backend
>>>  I've tried changing the namespace in dovecot.conf to
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> namespace private {
>>>  separator = .
>>>  location = maildir:~/Maildir
>>>  prefix = INBOX.
>>>  inbox = yes
>>>  hidden = no
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With this setting almost everything works fine! Almost... ;-)
>>> Squirrelmail won't show 'INBOX' on the left side of the folder tree...
>>>  If  I configure dovecot without the 'INBOX.' prefix it works fine in
>>>  Squirrelmail, except that all other eMail clients show all
>>> sub-folders as a sub-folder of root and not the inbox...
>>>
>>> root
>>> \- inbox
>>> \- sent
>>> \- trash
>>> \- drafts
>>> \- private
>>> \- spam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> instead of
>>> root
>>> \- inbox
>>> |  \- sent
>>> |  \- trash
>>> |  \- drafts
>>> |  \- private
>>> |  \- spam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> any Idea what could be wrong? I've read the wiki about the
>>> courier-migration and also tried the conversion script ... but
>>> something is wrong I'm afraid...
>>>
>>
>> You have contacted wrong list. Display of inbox subfolders depends on
>> used SquirrelMail version and other SquirrelMail settings. You haven't
>> provided information about your SquirrelMail version and used preset.
>>
>>
>
> I'm using Squirrelmail 1.5.1 CVS version and I've patched
> "functions/imap_mailbox.php" because it looks like if squirrel can't
> find the 'INBOX' folder so I add it if it there's none... But I've found
> another "problem"... Outlook or Outlook Express both add the "INBOX"
> Folder to the 'subscriptions' file. I don't really know if
> this is necessary - but in Thunderbird and Squirrelmail I then have an
> subfolder of inbox which is called 'INBOX'! i can unsubscribe from the
> folder then it's gone... until I open any of the Outlook clients... Is
> this maybe a namespace problem??

In 1.5.1cvs inbox subfolders are listed in same tree level as inbox.

-- 
Tomas