[Dovecot] Manually creating folders from terminal

[William Blunn]

A. J. Giurato wrote:
> I'm trying to use a script to create a mailbox structure.  I'm aware 
> that the structure should look like:
> ~/.maildir/.INBOX/{cur,tmp,new}
> ~/.maildir/.INBOX.Subfolder1/{cur,tmp,new}
> ~/.maildir/.INBOX.Subfolder2/{cur,tmp,new}
> ~/.maildir/.INBOX.Subfolder2.Subsubfolder1/{cur,tmp,new}
> ...
>
> I have tried manually making those directories and using the 
> "maildirmake.dovecot" command that my system has.  I feel that in the 
> past, folders I have made this way worked.  However, now none are 
> showing up in my clients.
>
> In Thunderbird, they aren't even listed on the "Subscribe" window for 
> me to enable.  Using Squirrelmail doesn't show them either.
>
> Essentially what I am doing is taking my current IMAP dir structure, 
> and making a copy in a subfolder called ".INBOX.Archive.<year>" to 
> archive my old mail.  Thus, .INBOX.Subfolder1.Subfolder2 becomes 
> .INBOX.Archive.2009.Subfolder1.Subfolder2.
>
> My system:
> Ubuntu 8.04
>
> # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> ssl_listen: *
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_privileged_group: mail
> mail_access_groups: mail
> default_mail_env: ~/.maildir
> mail_location: ~/.maildir

I am not a Dovecot expert, but I would wonder if it makes a difference 
if "mail_location" has not specified the mailbox type, e.g.

mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir

Also worth noting that the de-facto standard location for Maildirs is 
"~/Maildir", which would be indicated with

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

Bill