Issue with imap folder structure

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Thu Oct 5 12:48:12 EEST 2017


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On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, absolutely_free at libero.it wrote:

> I just migrated spool from another server (by copying filesystem, I use maildir), this is an example of mailbox's content:
>
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 11 Sep 29 09:27 .Drafts
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 9 Oct 4 10:18 .INBOX.Drafts
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 9 Oct 4 10:18 .INBOX.Sent
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 9 Oct 3 18:01 .INBOX.Trash
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 12 Sep 29 09:27 .Junk
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 8 Dec 9 2014 .Junk E-mail
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 10 Oct 4 12:27 .Sent
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 10 Oct 4 18:01 .Trash

> -rw------- 1 postfix postfix 96 Oct 3 18:01 subscriptions

> It seems I have duplicate folder (for example during webmail access, I use Roundcube).

You did not explain, which folders are duplicate.
Does "duplicate" mean, that they have the some content or just the same 
name? If copy one message into one folder, is it accessable through the 
other one?

> What is wrong with my setup?

Well, you mean "Sent" and "INBOX.Sent", which latter is a mailbox named 
"Sent" as subfolder of INBOX, then they are not duplicates, but have the 
same name. Eventually, your mail client strips the leading "INBOX" for 
convience for the user. Possibly, you had mailbox prefix configured in 
your setup ago, which hid all mailboxes except "INBOX" and below. Perhaps 
you have entries in your subscriptions files, which are no longer 
available, because of the other setup.

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Steffen Kaiser
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