On Oct 8 2008, ed beers wrote:
I'm trying to migrate my emails from an existing server (University of
Washington IMAP toolkit) to dovecot. My clients are all using Thunderbird.
I'm moving to a new Ubuntu based server (old one was Centos4) and
selected dovecot solely because it was the default option. I'm not
committed to it if it isn't the right tool for my application.
My existing server allows hierarchical folders and these are used to
organize 20 years worth of carefully sorted emails.
I can create a new folders on the dovecot server but Thunderbird
doesn't allow me to create new sub-folders within them. I think T-bird
is configured OK since this works on the old server.
Is this a dovecot limitation or have I configured it incorrectly?
You have something configured incorrectly. Dovecot allows creating folders
within folders out of the box (as does any non-idiotic IMAP server). I'd
double-check the Thunderbird config for your test Dovecot account against
one that you know will create subfolders on your UW server. They worked
exactly the same when we tested this functionality during our conversion
from UW.
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Brian Hayden
UMN OIT Internet Services
