[Dovecot] saving to imap folders and namespace settings

[Gustavo Sansone]

El 2013-02-05 0:09, Timo Sirainen escribió:
> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 16:29 -0200, Gustavo Sansone wrote:
>> hello everyone, i'm new to this list
>> im running dovecot as imap+pop (2.1.12) and roundcube (0.8.4) as
>> client.
>>
>> having problems on saving to imap folders, with errors on some 
>> accounts
>>
>> my folder structure is as follow:
>>
>> /home/user/.maildir
>> /home/user/.maildir/.Drafts
>> /home/user/.maildir/.Junk
>> /home/user/.maildir/.Sent
>> /home/user/.maildir/.Trash
>> /home/user/.maildir/.Archives
>> /home/user/.maildir/.Archives.2010
>> ...
>>
>> i'm very confused with the namespace settings. i don't understand 
>> what
>> is the correct way to configure it.
>> don't need public or shared folders.
>
> Easiest to use the default namespace settings. There you wouldn't 
> have
> any namespace prefix.

if i just remove the namespace 'INBOX.' , on 10-mail.conf then there is 
something that creates new Send and Draft folders into my maildir folder 
like this INBOX.Send and INBOX.Drafts. and Roundcube shows me these new 
folders under INBOX (screenshot attached).
can't figure out why it happens.

>> on dovecot.log i can see this error with my account (and all the
>> others), but it seems to work ok using roundcube:
>> imap(gsansone): Error: autocreate: No namespace found for mailbox: 
>> Junk
>
> In your current setup you have namespace prefix=INBOX. so the mailbox
> name would be INBOX.Junk.
>
>> with a few accounts, i have this on roundcube log:
>> IMAP Error: Could not save message in Drafts in
>> /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mail/program/steps/mail/sendmail.inc
>> with error on saving to imap folder in roundcube UI
>
> Roundcube also isn't configured to have INBOX. prefix. Sounds like 
> you
> should just remove it.
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