[Dovecot] Subscription to folders and subscription file

[Timo Sirainen]

On 11.8.2010, at 11.07, Fabio Ferrari wrote:

> The documentation says that this file ("subscriptions" or ".subscriptions"
> in the root of the maildir, I've tried both) holds the informations about
> the subscribed folders.
> 
> I've created such a file with these lines:
> 
> Trash
> Sent
> Drafts
> INBOX.prova
> INBOX.prova4

This could be right..

> And configured a client (Thunderbird) with INBOX.prova and INBOX.prova3
> subscribed. So, I have 2 different configurations: one for the client and
> one for the server.

Doesn't sound right.. They should be equal always.

Try talking IMAP protocol and seeing if the subscriptions file you created is correct: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation

Especially see that the LIST and LSUB output contains the mailbox names the same way. You can also use SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE commands to change the subscriptions.

> So, since I grepped "prova3" on all the directory structure and I found
> nothing, I think that dovecot is saving these informations in a binary
> format somewhere. Is it right?

No, it doesn't. With Maildir it's in "subscriptions" text file.

dovecot -n output might have been useful too.