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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