Le 8 juil. 09 à 18:58, Jim Reid a écrit :
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?
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Hello Jim,
Timo already replied with some hints related to your config and the
LAYOUT setting.
I just wanted to add that Mail.app seems to correctly honor the IMAP
conventions as far as naming is concerned, so that the creation of
child mailboxes is perfectly possible from Mail.app's GUI.
Of course, if the server doesn't allow for dual-use mailboxes, neither
will Mail.app... [1]
So, let's assume an fs layout for mboxes and "/" as hierarchy separator.
If one selects the "New mailbox..." menu item and ask to create an
item named "aaa/" somewhere on the server, this will create a
directory named "aaa" on the server and appear as a greyed folder in
the GUI.
The same way, one may ask to create "aaa/bbb/ccc" at the same
location, or to create "bbb/ccc" under "aaa", or to create "bbb/"
under "aaa" and then "ccc" under "bbb", and everything works as
expected ("ccc" now being a file on the server and appearing as a blue
folder in the GUI).
Axel
[1] Note that Mail.app allows for dual-use mailboxes in the local
storage, but this is thru a trick. If, at the same level, one has:
- a directory named "aaa"
- a directory named "aaa.mbox"
this will appear as a single blue folder named "aaa" in the GUI, and
that folder may contain both messages (they are stored in "aaa.mbox")
and other mailboxes (they are stored in "aaa").
