On 11 Jul 2020, at 08:05, Filip Hajný <fi...@hajny.net> wrote:
> does anybody here use MacOS (Catalina) Mail, who can confirm that subfolders
> (i.e. folders inside folders) work for them?
Yes, works fine on Catalina (and, if you're curious, Big Sur).
> It seems that I cannot create/access Maildir subfolders at all. Subfolders
> created in Mail show up as '.folder\2esubfolder' on disk, suggesting that
> Apple Mail is URL-coding the dot separator before it passes it onto Dovecot.
> No such translation takes place when interpreting the IMAP tree though,
> resulting in subfolders rendered as plain entries with the dot separator
> preserved.
That is odd, but I can't give you suggestions as it's always worked (I've been
using Mail.app as my primary MUA since Mac OX X 10.2 or so, when I got off
Eudora.
> Subfolders can be created from elsewhere (SoGO, Roundube, Thunderbird) just
> fine and work here just fine, suggesting that all is well in terms of Dovecot
> configuration. Subfolders created here though show up as a proper hierarchy
> in Apple Mail, but their contents is not displayed, so the user thinks the
> subfolder is empty.
I just created a subfolder in Apple mail. It shows up on the server as
.list.Subfolder
I drug your message into the folder, and the message shows up in Mail.app and
shows up in the subfolder on the server
# ls -lnR .lists.Subfolder [10:40]
[/usr/local/virtual/krem...@kreme.com/Maildir]
total 56
drwx------ 2 89 89 512 Jul 11 10:41 cur
-rw------- 1 89 89 21 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot-keywords
-rw------- 1 89 89 109 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 89 89 1924 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot.index.cache
-rw------- 1 89 89 868 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 89 89 0 Jul 11 10:35 maildirfolder
drwx------ 2 89 89 512 Jul 11 10:35 new
drwx------ 2 89 89 512 Jul 11 10:41 tmp
.lists.Subfolder/cur:
total 16
-rw------- 1 89 89 6035 Jul 11 08:05
1594476342.M306501P20070.mail.covisp.net,S=6035,W=6154:2,Sab
.lists.Subfolder/new:
total 0
.lists.Subfolder/tmp:
total 0
>
> This definitely used to work fine in the past.
>
> Running 2.3.10.1 as part of the Mailcow suite.
I'm not familiar with that. Is that running dovecot on your Mac? My server is a
FreeBSD 12.1 machine running dovecot-2.3.10.1_2.
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