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

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:19:25 +0200
Steffen <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:50:40 +0200 (CEST) Steffen Kaiser
> > <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> > I tried to tell dovecot that <spooldir> is 
> > mail_location=maildir:<spooldir>:LAYOUT=fs
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> Works for me, Dovecot v2.2RC3
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> mail_location = maildir:/home/fs:LAYOUT=fs
> mkdir -p /home/fs/foo/{tmp,cur,new}
> mkdir -p /home/fs/foo/bar/{tmp,cur,new}
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> telnet localhost 143
> 0 login nnn nnn
> 1 list "" "*"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" foo
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" foo/bar
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX
> 1 OK List completed.

Ok, I solved it thanks to your striking example. The problem was: the clients
remembered something from earlier sessions where the dovecot config was
probably not correct. I removed the mailbox from the client and recreated it
and now I see the correct list of folders. Thanks a lot for this hint.

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Regards,
Stephan