[Dovecot] Mail.app help

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Feb 12 11:41:00 EET 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 09:38 -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:
> I'm having a problem with Mail.app and imap folders.  I've got a new install
> of dovecot 1.0beta2, and am only experiencing this problem with Mail.  Mutt
> works as expected, as well as thunderbird.
> 
> When I create a folder using Mail.app, it is written to
> ~/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder, which would be fine, if I wasn't telling
> everything that I wanted no prefixes.  If I move that folder to
> ~/Maildir/.newfolder, Mail.app can no longer see it, but mutt and thunderbird
> can.  Thunderbird _CAN_ see the folders created as .INBOX.Folder, and even
> shows it as a subfolder of my inbox, but Mutt completely refuses to see it.
> 
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?

Looks like you've set IMAP prefix to "INBOX." in Mail.app's
configuration. Remove that.

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