[Dovecot] thunderbird and subscriptions with sieve

[Stephan Bosch]

On 8/31/2011 10:48 PM, Kristen J. Webb wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm a newbie trying to move mail out of my ISP onto a ubuntu (lucid) 
> dovecot 1.2.9 server.
>
> Is there any way to automatically add folders created by sieve
> (GNU Mailutils 2.1) to the subscriptions file for a user?
>
> I'm currently testing spam, and if sieve created the folder with the 
> first
> message, the thunderbird user does not see the new folder.
> Even more interesting, if the user then tries to create the Spam 
> directory
> it thunderbird seems to quietly ignore the request and the user still
> cannot see the folder, but I digress...
>
> I can manually subscribe with thunderbird, but this won't scale for more
> complex sieve later by making the user responsible for finding 
> everything.
>
> I can turn off subscription view in advanced settings on thunderbird,
> but we are trying to wean ourselves of of individual mail clients
> and I don't want to have to test this everywhere.
>
> Many thanks in advance!

If you set lda_mailbox_autosubscribe to yes, it will subscribe folders 
created by Sieve automatically.

However, afaik Thunderbird will not notice the subscription at first. 
You need to reconnect for that to be noticed.

Regards,

Stephan.