Hi all,
I am migrating a maildir Courier-IMAP installation to Dovecot.
Almost everything seems to work well, but I still have problems
accessing subfolders.
First let's see what I have done.
I used the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script suggested in
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier to convert mailboxes from
Courier to Dovecot. No problems here.
My dovecot.conf contains this:
(...)
mail_location = maildir:/mail/vmail/domains/%h
namespace private {
prefix = INBOX.
inbox = yes
}
(...)
The subscriptions file in the mailboxes looks correct to me. It includes
all the folders and subfolders, i.e.:
Sent
Trash
Drafts
mail.dovecot
mail.misc
mail.postmaster
tools
web.apache
web.css
Folders separated by "." are actually subfolders:
mail ---- dovecot
|
--- misc
|
--- postmaster
I let the configuration of my IMAP clients unchanged from Courier to
Dovecot. That is, they specify the "INBOX." prefix, as before. For
instance, with Pine:
folder-collections=mymail {mymail.example.com/user=John.Smith}INBOX.[]
Now the problem: I get different behaviours depending on the client I
use to access to Dovecot:
- Thunderbird:
All the folders are seen correctly. But the whole folders tree is
under "Inbox", while with Courier the first-level folders (i.e.
Drafts, mail, web) were at the same level of Inbox
- Webmail (Squirrelmail 1.4.8):
The same as above.
- Pine:
The folders are apparently correct, and are not under Inbox, but I can
access only the first-level folders: the folders containing
sub-folders are empty, therefore the subfolders cannot be accessed.
Any hints?
Thanks in advance
Claudio
