[Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:58 +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> > 
> >> However I have over 3500 folders and most of them are more than 3 
> >> levels deep.
> >> And I only get to see the first top level of directories.
> >> Searching and/or subscribing does not bring anything.
> > 
> > Are they stored in subdirectories in filesystem? Dovecot v1.1 would 
> > support that, but v1.0 supports only Maildir++ directory layout. 
> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++
> 
> Directories was perhaps the wrong word to use.
> No they just follow the maildir format .aaa.bbb.ccc
> So ccc is a subfolder of bbb which is a subfolder of aaa

OK, then I suspect the problem happens because hierarchy separator
changed from '/' to '.' and Thunderbird keeps caching the old one and
breaking itself. Try

a) Deleting/rebuilding TB's cache

b) Changing Dovecot's separator to '/' also using namespaces.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces


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