Hi all,
I've been using dovecot as our internal mail server for quite some time.
It works very well. Each of our mailboxes have 1000+ messages (some have
more than 4-5000 messages).
I have recently started using virtual folders and, using an adaptation
of an example script in the dovecot site
(http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual), to have a virtual folder
changed to act as inbox.
All of my email is delivered in some folder other than the real inbox
via sieve scripts.
My inbox is, therefore, a virtual folder, which only displays the unread
emails on all the folders in the account.
Everything works fine *except* that, when I mark an email as read or
when I open an email directly on the inbox, it does not disappear from
the inbox (as it should since it is not unread after being open or being
marked as read).
I'm not sure if this is a bug, a "feature", or a misconfiguration.... :)
I'm using dovecot 1.2.13 on Debian Etch (installed using the backports
repository). Attached is the file with the output of "dovecot -n", the
script for the virtual folder and the custom login script to change the
virtual folder to act as the inbox.
I'm using Thunderbird 3.1.6 on Windows XP SP3 as the main mail client
and also using an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to access the same account.
Regards,
--
Anto'nio Henrique A. Proenca de Oliveira
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# 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.6
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imap imaps managesieve
ssl_listen(default): *:993
ssl_listen(imap): *:993
ssl_listen(managesieve):
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/HIHCA/certs/mail.cer
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/HIHCA/private/mail.key
disable_plaintext_auth: no
shutdown_clients: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login
login_max_processes_count: 256
mail_privileged_group: mail
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/postlogin
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/postlogin
mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve
mail_plugins(default): lazy_expunge virtual
mail_plugins(imap): lazy_expunge virtual
mail_plugins(managesieve):
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve
imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(managesieve):
imap_logout_format(default):
imap_logout_format(imap):
imap_logout_format(managesieve): bytes=%i/%o
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
inbox: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: .EXPUNGED/
location: maildir:~/deleted-mail/expunged
hidden: yes
list: no
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: .DELETED/
location: maildir:~/deleted-mail/deleted
hidden: yes
list: no
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/
location: maildir:~/deleted-mail/deleted/expunged
hidden: yes
list: no
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: virtual/
location: virtual:~/virtual-mail
hidden: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: real/
hidden: yes
list: no
subscriptions: yes
lda:
postmaster_address: postmas...@homesinheaven.net
sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail
auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mail_plugins: sieve virtual
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
plugin:
lazy_expunge: .EXPUNGED/ .DELETED/ .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/
#!/bin/sh
# AUTOMATICALLY CREATE virtual DIRECTORY
#
# assumes NAMESPACE_1 is your normal mail, NAMESPACE_2
# is virtual. ${NAMESPACE_2} contains the directory
# we need to create but in an inconvenient format, so
# here we assume it's $HOME/Maildir/virtual
export VIRTUAL=$HOME/virtual-mail
if [ ! -d "$VIRTUAL" ]; then
# su to get right ownership
su $USER -c 'mkdir -m 700 -p "$VIRTUAL"'
fi
# AUTOMATICALLY VIRTUALIZE INBOX
#
# If the user creates a virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual,
# switch the inbox to the virtual namespace.
if [ -s "${VIRTUAL}/INBOX/dovecot-virtual" ]; then
unset NAMESPACE_1_INBOX
export NAMESPACE_5_INBOX=1
fi
exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap "$@"
real/*
(unseen)
