On Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:24:04 +0200 Luigi Rosa <li...@luigirosa.com> wrote: > > Peter Chiochetti wrote on 17/07/2016 11:01: > > > With Maildir and path separator "." one can have incomplete paths: eg. > > bpatterson.INBOX.2011 will say that there is 2011 within INBOX within > > bpatterson > > -- while it is possible, that both bpatterson and bpatterson.INBOX do not > > exist! > > Thunderbird will render the missing folders gray in the UI, you probably > > cannot > > subscribe to those, even from the subscribe dialogue. You should be able to > > create them though. > > That is correct. > > If you want to create the "path" Somename/Foo/Bar/Baz (as seen by the IMAP > client), even if only Somename and Baz contains messages, you must have the > entire "path", that is tour mailbox directory must contain the directories: > > .Somename > .Somename.Foo > .Somename.Foo.Bar > .Somename.Foo.Bar.Baz > > Of course each of the directories will contain cur, tmp, new and Dovecot files > > Ciao, > luigi
That was probably my problem. While I moved the entire Maildir structure from the old user's Maildir hierarchy, I just created .bpatterson.Foo.Bar/ .bpatterson.Foo.raB/ etc I never did create .bpatterson/ .bpatterson.Foo/ etc. Good to know. I'll sort that out better next time. Meanwhile, before reading this message, I created a new folder in Tbird, then dragged the folders out of the .bpatterson hierarchy to the new folder. That worked, but was a bit time consuming. I supposed I was thrown off because the destination user's Maildir has no .INBOX/ directory, only: .INBOX.this/ .INBOX.that/ but, I suppose INBOX is a special case since the rest of the top-level folders (Drafts, Templates, Sent Items, ...) do have directories. Next time! Thanks --Mark
