On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:09 +0100, Neil Bird wrote: > However, I've had some slight issues elsewhere which I feel would be > eased or solved by making my INBOX use maildir format, and keeping mails I > want to remote-access more often in the top level maildir there (instead of > always having to dip into the TB mboxes). To that end, I tried setting up: > > # want to be able to add sibling and child folders here > namespace private { > separator = / > prefix = > location = /var/spool/mail/%u
location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u is more robust. > inbox = yes > hidden = no > list = yes > } > Now, this pretty much worked the way I wanted. However, afterwards, > trying to connect from squirrelmail I had it say that there were no [IMAP] > folders to subscribe to, including the INBOX. Try talking directly with IMAP: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation The "c LIST "" *" part especially. Does it show anything? Set mail_debug=yes and it'll log the directories it's really using. Do you see your mails there? Are you using Maildirs correctly? Note that Dovecot uses Maildir++ layout by default: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#Directory_Structure
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