[Dovecot] doveadm mailbox list shows file system directories as mailboxes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Oct 18 17:31:35 EEST 2011


On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 11:52 +0200, Jürgen Obermann wrote:
> Hello.
> In our dovecvot we use mbox format with the default filesystem layout.
> Therefore it is not possible to have mailboxes which are subfolders of  
> other mailboxes containing messages.
> The command "doveadm mailbox list" includes the file system  
> directories, that contain only subfolders, as normal mailboxes in the  
> output:
> 
> archiv
> archiv/daemon
> archiv/dovecot
> 
> Did I miss something in the dovecot configuration or is there a bug in  
> the command "doveadm mailbox list"?

It's more like a feature.. For example if there exists "archiv"
directory without children, I don't think it should be invisible in the
list. Maybe there could be a new parameter to hide \Noselect mailboxes.





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