[Dovecot] IMAP Folders Don't Make Sense

[Rick Romero]

Quoting "Carlos Williams" <carloswill at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:
>> The entire structure doesn't look correct for Maildir.
>> The folders you listed, puts you already in the INBOX, so your MUA should be
>> seeing:
>> INBOX\
>>      Drafts
>>      INBOX\
>>            ClamAV
>>            Dell.Quotes
>>            Dell.Warranty
>>            etc.etc.etc..
>>      Sent
>>      Spam
>>      Trash
>>
>> If you are not seeing the folders in that order, then I think your
>> dovecot.conf isn't quite right.  Please post the output of dovecot -n
>
> No I don't appear to be seeing this and I think the fact that I have
> used different mail clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, etc etc etc) and
> think that their default folder structure may have made a mess on my
> IMAP Maildir structure over the years.
>
> Below is my dovecot -n:
>
> [root at mail Maildir]# dovecot -n
> # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
> protocols: imap
> ssl_cert_file: /srv/ssl/ghost.crt
> ssl_key_file: /srv/ssl/ghost.key
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
> auth default:
>   mechanisms: plain login
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
>   socket:
>     type: listen
>     client:
>       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>       mode: 432
>       user: postfix
>       group: postfix
>
> ---
>
> Beyond that I don't know why it's messed up and more importantly, how
> I can fix it. Any suggestions?

Try adding a namespace.

namespace private {
   separator = .
   prefix = INBOX.
   inbox = yes
}