On 12/7/2010 11:02 AM, dovecot wrote:
On 07-12-10 16:37, jj...@cornell.edu wrote:
I have a very bizarre problem that I hope someone can help me with. I
am not sure if this is a Dovecot problem, or IMAP client problem.

I recently used Transend's Migrator to move mail from Exchange 2007 to
my Dovecot 1.0.7 server. The program seems to have moved the nested
IMAP dirs properly as seen below in a directory listing of the maildir
dir. The nested dirs have indexes, cur, new dirs as expected.

However, when the account is viewed in Windows Thunderbird 3.1.6 or
Outlook 2010 the 3rd tier dirs are not seen, nor can they be
subscribed to. On a whim, I decided to try Apple Mail 4.3 to view the
account and all the IMAP dirs can be seen and accessed as expected.

Any idea what is going on?  Is this somehow an IMAP client problem
(bug) or an issue with Dovecot and these clients?


Listing of the Maildir dir:

[root Maildir]# ls -al
total 92
drwx------ 17 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 17:06 .
drwx------  9 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 15:58 ..
drwx------  5 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:31 .mailbox
drwx------  5 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:31 .mailbox.mail
drwx------  5 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:48 .mailbox.mail.colleagues
drwx------  5 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 17:02
.mailbox.mail.colleagues.amy
drwx------  5 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:48
.mailbox.mail.colleagues.aslan
drwx------  2 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:31 cur
-rw-------  1 andrew andrew   144 Dec  6 16:31 dovecot.index
-rw-------  1 andrew andrew 10272 Dec  6 16:31 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------  1 andrew andrew   128 Dec  6 16:31 dovecot.index.log
drwx------  2 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:31 new
drwx------  5 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:53 .Sent Items
-rw-------  1 andrew andrew    32 Dec  6 17:06 subscriptions
drwx------  2 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:31 tmp
drwx------  5 andrew andrew  4096 Dec  6 16:32 .Trash


PROBLEM:

When viewed in Thunderbird 3.1.6 or Outlook 2010:

These nested dirs are seen:
..mailbox
....mail

These nested dirs are NOT seen or can be subscribed:
......colleagues
........amy
........aslan


OBSERVATIONS:

When viewed in Apple Mail 4.3, all dirs are seen correctly.

Thank you, I appreciate any and all replies, comments, questions, and
suggestions.
Jason


seems to work here:

i just create a folder 'test', a subfolder 'test', etc, etc

opensuse:/home/luuk/Maildir # ls -laR | grep test
drwx------  5 luuk users    4096 2010-12-07 16:59 .test
drwx------  5 luuk users    4096 2010-12-07 17:00 .test.test
drwx------  5 luuk users    4096 2010-12-07 16:59 .test.test.test
drwx------  5 luuk users    4096 2010-12-07 17:00 .test.test.test.test
./.test:
./.test/cur:
./.test/new:
./.test/tmp:
./.test.test:
./.test.test/cur:
./.test.test/new:
./.test.test/tmp:
./.test.test.test:
./.test.test.test/cur:
./.test.test.test/new:
./.test.test.test/tmp:
./.test.test.test.test:
./.test.test.test.test/cur:
./.test.test.test.test/new:
./.test.test.test.test/tmp:
opensuse:/home/luuk/Maildir #

Thanks for the note. I should have mentioned that manually creating nested folders from within TB or Outlook works just fine.
-Jason

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