[Dovecot] Dovecot and Mail.app

[Timothy Martin]

I use Mail.app with dovecot (if you look in the archive you can see  
some of the problems i had when setting it up). Although I prefer to  
not have the courier-style presentation of all folders existing under  
the inbox. If you use OS X server with OS X clients you get a  
presentation of your accounts that looks like this:

Inbox
Outbox
Drafts
Sent
Junk
SmartFolder1
SmartFolder2
Account1
    Folder1
    Folder2
    ...
Account2
    FolderA

and for each of the "special" mailboxes (inbox, drafts, sent, junk)  
there is a disclosure triangle with each separate account in case you  
want to see only the inbox of a single account at a time:
Inbox
    Account1
    Account2
Drafts
    Account1
    Account2
Sent
    Account1
    Account2
Junk
    Account1
    Account2

But just fyi, i use only the default namespace:

	namespace private {
	  separator = .
	  prefix =
	  inbox = yes
	  hidden = no
	}

and although i believe the mail_location to be irrelevant to this  
discussion:

	mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/email/%d/%u


.tim


On Dec 26, 2006, at 3:05 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

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> On Dec 26, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
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>> I suppose I can live with the Mail.app behavior sans the prefix  
>> setting in the namespace section, but it's not ideal.  I'd really  
>> like to know why Mail.app has a problem with this!  Why are the  
>> folders there but the contents empty?  Is there any way to  
>> increase the logging that Dovecot does to understand what the  
>> Mail.app client is sending and why Dovecot is sending back that  
>> error?
>
> I did a little packet snooping and I think I might have discovered  
> what's going on.  Apparently, Mail.app uses mailbox names like  
> INBOX/Foo and INBOX/Bar while Thunderbird uses mailbox names like  
> INBOX.Foo and INBOX.Bar.  IOW, adding these two namespace sections  
> seems to support both clients:
>
> # For Mail.app
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    prefix = INBOX/
>    inbox = yes
> }
> # For Thunderbird
> namespace private {
>    separator = .
>    prefix = INBOX.
>    inbox = yes
> }
>
> I need to play with this some more to be sure.  Can anybody  
> corroborate this?  If true, the information should probably be  
> added to the Dovecot wiki.
>
> - -Barry
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