Steffen Kaiser <skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> writes: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Julien Cubizolles wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:50:19 +0100 >> From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizol...@free.fr> >> To: dovecot@dovecot.org >> Subject: Can't access maildir with dovecot >> >> I'm a total newbie regarding imap servers. I'm trying to set up a >> Offlineimap/dovecot/Gnus system and Gnus complains that it cannot access >> the maildir... Here is my setup, put together by copying stuff from >> around the web without any prior knowledge of these tools... >> >> * Offlineimap is setup to use the $HOME/Maildir-free/, using >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> preauthtunnel = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o >> mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir-free >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> in the local maildir part of ~/.offlineimaprc. >> >> * The Maildir-free maildir has been correctly (I think) populated >> with a single "General" folder. >> >> /home/wilk/Maildir-free: >> total used in directory 52 available 5502852 >> drwxrwxr-x 6 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:10 . >> drwx------ 240 wilk wilk 20480 oct. 23 15:06 .. >> drwxrwxr-x 2 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:09 cur >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 wilk wilk 348 oct. 23 11:10 dovecot.index.log >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 wilk wilk 51 oct. 23 11:10 dovecot-uidlist >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 wilk wilk 8 oct. 23 11:09 dovecot-uidvalidity >> -r--r--r-- 1 wilk wilk 0 oct. 23 11:09 dovecot-uidvalidity.5629f967 >> drwx------ 6 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:16 General > > Maildir++ prefixes all Mailboxes with ".", hence it should read: .General
It should be OfflineIMAP's job to name it that way, right ? I tried adding "sep = ." to the Remote Repository but it seems it only affects the subfolders, not the first-level one. Also I naively renamed the General folder to .General, and dovecot still can't access it. Thanks for your help.
