INBOX subfolders not showing up

[Dr. Matthias Sitte]

Well, I created a test user to check what kind of permissions Dovecot
gives (after reading the docs I was kinda confused a bit). Except for
the INBOX folder (which had some group/other read flags) everything was
the same. I've corrected that. Folders created with Thunderbird (24.5)
now show up, but I have to restart it. Well, I can live with that.

On the other hand, the logs don't show anything unusual, no immediate
warnings or errors about permissions.

I'm still confused about it. I remember vaguely that it worked with the
previous major version of Dovecot before upgrading to Wheezy...

On 08/02/2014 01:37 PM, Tim wrote:
> I came across something like this recently and it turned out it was a
> permissions issue on a users maildir/ folder. Check that - took me hours
> to figure it out and 2 secs to fix. Have you also checked your logs to
> see if there are any errors?
> 
> On 31/07/14 16:23, Matthias Sitte wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem with INBOX subfolders and subscriptions which I can't
>> solve... Maybe somebody has seen this, too...
>>
>> I can create regular subfolders (not in INBOX) and (un-)subscribe to
>> them with Thunderbird.  If I create subfolders in the INBOX with TB
>> this seems to work now in v31 (just found this out), but with v24.6
>> neither INBOX subfolder creation nor subscriptions worked.  When I
>> modified the `subscriptions' file manually on the server, the folders
>> would show up in TB, though.
>>
>> Maybe this was a TB bug, but quite similarly INBOX subfolders don't
>> show up on iPhones (iOS up-to-date), but all other subfolders do.
>>
>> Any ideas what's going on?
>>
>> Best,
>>   Matthias
>>
>> ======================================================================
>>
>> # dovecot -n
>> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.6 ext4
>> hostname = familie-sitte.org
>> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
>> log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
>> mail_location = maildir:/srv/mail/%d/%n/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
>> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
>> encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
>> relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
>> environment mailbox date ihave
>> namespace inbox {
>>   inbox = yes
>>   list = yes
>>   location =
>>   mailbox Drafts {
>>     special_use = \Drafts
>>   }
>>   mailbox Junk {
>>     special_use = \Junk
>>   }
>>   mailbox Sent {
>>     special_use = \Sent
>>   }
>>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>>     special_use = \Sent
>>   }
>>   mailbox Trash {
>>     special_use = \Trash
>>   }
>>   prefix =
>>   separator = /
>>   subscriptions = yes
>>   type = private
>> }
>> passdb {
>>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>>   driver = sql
>> }
>> plugin {
>>   quota = maildir:User quota
>>   quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
>>   quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
>>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>>   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
>> }
>> postmaster_address = postmaster at familie-sitte.org
>> protocols = " imap sieve pop3"
>> service auth {
>>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>>     group = postfix
>>     mode = 0660
>>     user = postfix
>>   }
>> }
>> service imap-login {
>>   inet_listener imaps {
>>     port = 993
>>     ssl = yes
>>   }
>> }
>> service managesieve-login {
>>   inet_listener sieve {
>>     port = 4190
>>   }
>> }
>> service quota-warning {
>>   executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
>>   unix_listener quota-warning {
>>     user = vmail
>>   }
>>   user = dovecot
>> }
>> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/mail_cert.pem
>> ssl_cipher_list =
>> SSDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+RC4:EDH+aRSA:EECDH:RC4:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS
>>
>> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/mail_key.pem
>> userdb {
>>   args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/srv/mail/%d/%n
>>   driver = static
>> }
>> protocol lda {
>>   mail_plugins = " quota sieve"
>> }
>> protocol imap {
>>   mail_plugins = " imap_quota quota"
>> }
> 

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