[Dovecot] Migrating from courier-imap to dovecot

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun May 8 14:07:52 EEST 2005


On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 11:00 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> cd ~wash/Maildir
> cp courierimapsubscribed .subscriptions # Then I edited to remove "INBOX."
> cp courierimapuiddb dovecot-uidlist
> 
> The permissions are right, but when I login as this user, I don't see
> all the folders that had been there before when he was using
> courier-imap!!

Like Curtis said, this is most likely because the clients have INBOX.
prefix set. If you don't want to have clients change their
configuration, you can create namespaces (which requires 1.0-stable
versions):

http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Namespaces

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