[Dovecot] Courier to Dovecot: problems with folders

[Ed W]

Hi

> I let the configuration of my IMAP clients unchanged from Courier to 
> Dovecot. That is, they specify the "INBOX." prefix, as before. For 
> instance, with Pine:

For me this crunches down the folder list so that it's inline with 
INBOX, not under it, in most programs?

> - Thunderbird:
>   All the folders are seen correctly. But the whole folders tree is
>   under "Inbox", while with Courier the first-level folders (i.e.
>   Drafts, mail, web) were at the same level of Inbox


I have recently been testing this back and forwards.  If you delete the 
prefix, then refresh the folder list then a namespace with a prefix in 
it will create a tree and a namespace without the INBOX. prefix will be 
all inline

Personally I prefer the tree with all the folders under INBOX, but I 
used the opportunity to change to do without the prefix in order to make 
Outlook clients easier to setup (they otherwise don't use the Sent 
Items/Drafts folder on the server without manual configuration)

Ed W