[Dovecot] How to see folders/subfolders/emails through imap

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> I am trying to do something very simple - at least thats what I thought.
> I have some fs, it contains folders and subfolders with email files ordered
> like maildir. Now I try to set up dovecot on top simply to let some imap
> account watch these email files. But I cannot see any folders at all. I can
> create new folders and see them, but I cannot create subfolders as subdirs
> like "folder/subfolder". Instead I get "folder.subfolder" dirs on the fs.
> I tried to set the separator to "/", but that does not help at all.
>
> Is there some easy way to configure dovecot to display:
>
> <somedir>/<folder1>/<subfolder1>/new/files...
>                    <subfolder2>/new/files...
>                    <subfolder3>/new/files...
>
> according to fs layout on some imap-client (like thunderbird)?

Well, first, simply explain what you mean with "email files".

a) you mentioned "maildir", so simply look at 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir "Directory layout"
this would also fit your example, IMHO.

b) you mentioned "thunderbird", which does not use maildir to my 
knowledge, but mbox, so simply look at 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox

You might want to place control files somewhere else, see CONTROL= and 
INDEX=.

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Steffen Kaiser
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