IMAP folder separator issue

Christian Kivalo ml+dovecot at valo.at
Sat Aug 15 06:34:14 UTC 2015



># 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
># OS: Linux 4.0.7-300.fc22.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two)
>default_client_limit = 2000
>mail_gid = mail
>mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
>mail_plugins = " listescape"
>mail_privileged_group = mail
>mbox_write_locks = fcntl
>namespace {
>  inbox = yes
>  location =
>  prefix =
>  separator = $
>  type = private
>}
>namespace inbox {
>  inbox = yes
>  location =
>  mailbox Drafts {
>    special_use = \Drafts
>  }

the namespaces wiki page at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces says you should have srt inbox = yes only once:

inbox: "yes", if this namespace contains the user's INBOX. There is only one INBOX, so only one namespace can have inbox=yes.

you have set inbox=yes twice.

- c


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