[Dovecot] Reading Mutt mboxes from Thunderbird

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.4.2012, at 19.07, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

> Hi, I'm a user of Mutt, and before moving to Thunderbird I'm trying to
> share mboxes between them. To do this, I installed Dovecot to create an
> IMAP server in my local machine, to serve mutt mboxes to be read by
> Thunderbird.
> 
> So far, I can read my inbox from /var/mail/%u, but in mutt, I have many
> folders in ~/mail, like 2010-mails, 2011-mails, mailing-list-x,
> mailing-list-y, and so on. How can I configure Dovecot to read them?.
> 
> In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf I have this:
> 
> mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u 

~/mail vs. ~/Mail?