[Dovecot] getting Apple Mail and dovecot/IMAP to co-operate

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:58 +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
> Hi. I've been fighting a losing battle to get Apple Mail and dovecot  
> to play nice. When dovecot is told to use mbox-style mailboxes, it's  
> not possible to create child mailboxes. Apple Mail whines "The IMAP  
> command “CREATE” failed with server error: Mailbox doesn't allow  
> inferior mailboxes.". I've looked through the documentation, the wiki  
> and searched the mail archives without finding a solution. Can anyone  
> help?

If you want to create e.g. "sub/box", start from nothing. Don't create
"sub". Give the mailbox name as "sub/box". The "sub" then can't have
messages, but it can have other child mailboxes.

> I've tried (and failed) to get a hybrid maildir/mbox setup to work  
> like that shown on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces. When that gets  
> plugged into dovecot.conf, Apple Mail blocks, with the Activity window  
> saying "waiting for login" or something like that, even though a valid  
> imaps connection and login has been established.

I don't really know about that. What kind of a namespace configuration
exactly did you use?
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