[Dovecot] saving to imap folders and namespace settings

[Gustavo Sansone]

El 2013-02-05 12:10, Gustavo Sansone escribió:
> 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.
>
sorry, forgot to mention that when INBOX.Send and INBOX.Drafts are 
created, Roundcube subscribe to these folders as special folders. the 
screenshot was taken after i added INBOX. prefix again to 10-mail.conf

another important thing (i guess), is when installed dovecot, i 
migrated from Courier following the wiki2 documentation.

>>> 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.