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

[Timo Sirainen]

On 8.4.2013, at 18.51, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> 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.

You mentioned you set LAYOUT=fs, but the above sounds like you're still using Maildir++. Set mail_debug=yes and see what it says.