On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:58 +0100, Jim Reid wrote: > Hi. I've been fighting a losing battle to get Apple Mail and dovecot > to play nice. When dovecot is told to use mbox-style mailboxes, it's > not possible to create child mailboxes. Apple Mail whines "The IMAP > command “CREATE” failed with server error: Mailbox doesn't allow > inferior mailboxes.". I've looked through the documentation, the wiki > and searched the mail archives without finding a solution. Can anyone > help?
If you want to create e.g. "sub/box", start from nothing. Don't create "sub". Give the mailbox name as "sub/box". The "sub" then can't have messages, but it can have other child mailboxes. > I've tried (and failed) to get a hybrid maildir/mbox setup to work > like that shown on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces. When that gets > plugged into dovecot.conf, Apple Mail blocks, with the Activity window > saying "waiting for login" or something like that, even though a valid > imaps connection and login has been established. I don't really know about that. What kind of a namespace configuration exactly did you use?
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