How to "activate" a mail directory?

[Peter Nabbefeld]

Hello Aki,

the command works and shows the full path to the folder. However,
"dovecot mailbox list -s -u <username> <mailbox-wildcard>" did not list
the mailbox, so I tried to subscribe to it. It's listed now, but I still
cannot subscribe to it using Thunderbird.

I'm using dovecot to archive my emails locally, using getmail to receive
mails from my provider and managing these using Thunderbird
(IMAP-Server: local Dovecot, SMTP-Server: remote).

Kind regards,
Peter



Am 05.02.22 um 21:22 schrieb Aki Tuomi:
>> On 05/02/2022 12:08 Peter Nabbefeld<peter.nabbefeld at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
> You sure you put it in right place?
>
> You can check the path with
>
> doveadm mailbox path -u username MailboxName
>
> it does not have to exist to check the path.
>
> Aki