[Dovecot] Thunderbird IMAP woes

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Qua, 11 Ago 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Now, the problem is that to a lesser extent, Thunderbird 2, and to  
>> a larger extent Thunderbird 3 is having serious issues when I go  
>> (want to go) deeper than two levels of nesting. Like, in the  
>> Subscribe dialog sometimes I see the third level subfolders,  
>> sometimes I dont. If is subscribe to a second-level folder, then  
>> create a subfolder in it, the other subfolders suddenly appear.  
>> It's all very random, unfortunatelly, then only way I can use the  
>> system right now is to uncheck 'Show subscribed folders only' in  
>> Account Settings, and even then, sometimes folders disappear or  
>> reappear that are highly nested.
>
> Some people have complained about this, but I thought this happened  
> with all servers. So you're saying that the same TB versions with  
> Courier didn't have this problem? .. Wonder what Courier could be  
> doing differently here. I thought Dovecot and Courier outputs would  
> be the same.

I have this problem with TB 3 (but it worked fine in TB 2, with the  
same Dovecot version).

Horde's IMP webmail does not have this problem. I believe it's a TB  
problem that has nothing to do with Dovecot.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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