[Dovecot] Reading Mutt mboxes from Thunderbird

[Daniel Parthey]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> 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?

On 2012-04-25 04:26:27 +0200, Daniel Parthey wrote:
> Are you sure, dovecot does not read them, or are you just not "seeing"
> your folders in thunderbird? Please try to right click your INBOX and
> "subscribe" to the folders. On serverside, the subscribed folders are
> listed in $mail_location/subscriptions, so you might auto-generate
> this file by listing your mutt mailboxes.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel

You are right!, I just had to subscribe to the folders.

Regards,
Leonardo