How to "activate" a mail directory?

Peter Nabbefeld peter.nabbefeld at gmx.de
Sat Feb 5 10:08:56 UTC 2022


Hello,

as I need a mailbox locally only just for filtering, I've tried to
manually create it (using Maildir as backend):

1. Created a folder in the appropriate location under /home/vmail with
subfolders cur, new, tmp.
2. Set the same user:group as for the other folders (i.e. vmail:vmail).
3. Restarted Dovecot and Email-Client (Thunderbird).

However, I cannot subscribe to the new folder. What am I missing here?

Kind regards,
Peter



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