[Dovecot] IMAP Folder Creation

Zach Hobbs zach-list at zta-tech.com
Tue May 23 05:55:12 EEST 2006


I am using Maildir with dovecot 0.99.14-1 and postfix.

My IMAP server was working where I could create a folder in Kmail or 
Thunderbird and specify wether the folder was to hold messages or folders.  
Then something changed, and I lost all my folders that contained sub-folders.  
And now I cannot create folders that contain subfolders (Kmail doesn't event 
give the option anymore).  I can create folders and put messages in them, but 
I cannot create subfolders in the newly created folders.

The Maildir is owned by the user logging in.  Do I need to do anything with 
permissions, or are there settings to allow/disallow this?  I've been reading 
through everything I could find with dovecot and folders in the message, and 
I can't come up with anything.

Here's an example file structure (logging in as "zta-tech_zach"):

Maildir# ls -lA -R
.:
total 32
drwx------  2 zta-tech_zach web1 4096 2006-05-22 21:41 cur
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1    5 2006-05-22 21:16 .customflags
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1   52 2006-05-22 21:40 dovecot-uidlist
drwx------  2 zta-tech_zach web1 4096 2006-05-22 21:16 .INBOX
drwx------  2 zta-tech_zach web1 4096 2006-05-22 21:40 new
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1    6 2006-05-22 21:41 .subscriptions
drwx------  2 zta-tech_zach web1 4096 2006-05-22 21:40 tmp
drwx------  5 zta-tech_zach web1 4096 2006-05-22 21:25 .Trash

./cur:
total 20
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1 16591 2006-05-22 21:40 
1148352021.3157_1.www.zta-tech.com:2,S

./.INBOX:
total 24
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1  1608 2006-05-22 21:41 .imap.index
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1 10264 2006-05-22 21:16 .imap.index.data
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1  2576 2006-05-22 21:16 .imap.index.log
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1  1560 2006-05-22 21:16 .imap.index.tree

./new:
total 0

./tmp:
total 0

./.Trash:
total 40
drwx------  2 zta-tech_zach web1  4096 2006-05-22 21:24 cur
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1     5 2006-05-22 21:25 .customflags
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1  1608 2006-05-22 21:24 .imap.index
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1 10264 2006-05-22 21:25 .imap.index.data
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1  2576 2006-05-22 21:25 .imap.index.log
-rw-------  1 zta-tech_zach web1  1560 2006-05-22 21:25 .imap.index.tree
drwx------  2 zta-tech_zach web1  4096 2006-05-22 21:24 new
drwx------  2 zta-tech_zach web1  4096 2006-05-22 21:24 tmp

./.Trash/cur:
total 0

./.Trash/new:
total 0

./.Trash/tmp:
total 0

Thanks,
Zach


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