[Dovecot] Update 1.2 -> 2.0 ... INBOX away?

[Timo Sirainen]

No idea how that worked with your previous configuration (I guess accidentally/unintentionally), but I guess you want this:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX:LAYOUT=fs

On 29.12.2012, at 4.41, Martin Rabl <martin.rabl at rablnet.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I did an update from dovecot 1.2 to 2.0.19 (Ubuntu 10.04 -> 12.04).
> After fixing the configuration dovecot startups as it should, but with one error, I don't understand: the INBOX will not be delivered to the Mailclient and will not be filled by "deliver".
> Instead, dovecot create the two dirs "new" and "cur" directly in "Maildir".
> 
> the filesystem looks now like:
> domain/user1/Maildir/INBOX	# official INBOX
> domain/user1/Maildir/new      # new mail
> domain/user1/Maildir/cur      # read mail
> 
> We have searched for an configuration error, but didn't found anything - or did not see one ;-)
> 
> Maybe there is someone in the list, which see our error in a moment?
> 
> We are using only imap/s and managesieve, no pop3. Maildir-Layout is FS.
> 
> Here a snippet of our configuration:
> 
> ------------
> 
> mail_home =
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
> 
> 
> namespace {
>  hidden = no
>  inbox = yes
>  list = yes
>  location =
>  prefix =
>  separator = /
>  subscriptions = yes
>  type = private
> }
> namespace {
>  list = yes
>  location = maildir:%%h/Maildir/:INDEX=%%h/Maildir/shared/%u:LAYOUT=fs
>  prefix = shared/%%u/
>  separator = /
>  subscriptions = no
>  type = shared
> }
> namespace {
>  list = yes
>  location = maildir:/srv/vmail/public:LAYOUT=fs
>  prefix = public/
>  separator = /
>  subscriptions = no
>  type = public
> }
> 
> protocol lda {
>  mail_plugins = sieve autocreate
> }
> protocol imap {
>  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-lsub-flags tb-lsub-flags
>  mail_max_userip_connections = 10
>  mail_plugins = acl autocreate imap_acl
> }
> 
> ------------
> 
> Hope you can help!
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>   Martin
>