[Dovecot] ios clients and namespace trouble

[Kelsey Cummings]

We migrated to dovecot from courier and maintained a courier compatible 
namespace configuration.  This resulted in ios clients needing to be 
manually configured in order to use the special folders correctly 
(delete messages, save drafts, etc) either by being given the correct 
"Path Prefix" or by manually selecting the special folders.

I can't fathom why apple has chosen not to support or can't detect 
namespace correctly and require manual configuration but if they haven't 
done it by now they must have some reason for it and aren't going to fix 
it any time soon.

Are there any creative solutions to fixing the i-clients and preventing 
them from needing manual configuration?

-K