Bill Cole wrote: > Andreas Meyer wrote, On 3/21/09 11:16 AM: >> Hello! >> >> I tried to setup dovecot to work with IMAP and POP3 but when I connect >> with Squirrelmail, I get an error saying CREATE "INBOX.Sent" >> reason: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes > > That's for user7, right? > > The cause of that error is SquirrelMail (using IMAP) is trying to create > a mailbox as a child of INBOX, but since user7 is defined as using mbox > format, that fails. If you use mbox storage, an IMAP folder can have > either messages or subfolders but never both, because when using mbox an > IMAP folder containing messages is a file, while an IMAP folder > containing subfolders is a directory. See > http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox for more info. > > There *should* be some way to make SquirrelMail stop trying to create > its folders under INBOX, but I have no idea if there actually *is* one. > Some IMAP servers only allow the creation of folders as children of > INBOX, and as a result some (broken) IMAP clients only know how to > create folders that way. You can accommodate such software in Dovecot by > using namespaces. >
Run the squirrelmail configure program and change the "default folder prefix" to blank under "folder defaults". ~Seth
