[Dovecot] Re: Subfolder in Maildir

[Bart Braem]

Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> On Monday 29 May 2006 11:25, Bart Braem took the opportunity to write:
> 
>> We have installed a brand new Dovecot because it seems very interesting
>> as an IMAP server. We created a mailbox for a test user and we succeeded
>> in copying some mails into it.
>> However making subfolders does not work. The only folders we can create
>> are in the root, next to the INBOX that is. We thought Maildir does
>> support subfolders (as opposed to mbox), are we wrong here?
>> Our Dovecot version is 1.0.b8_1.
> 
> It should work out of the box. What, exactly, happens when you try to
> create subfolders? What IMAP client do you use? What changes, if any, have
> you made to the default configuration?

After playing around with dovecot we discovered it was due to the separator.
When set to / it worked. We tested with kmail and thunderbird...

Bart