Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Timo Sirainen wrote: Yeah, Dovecot v1.2 doesn't like this. v2.0 allows it though. In that case, Timo you have solved all of my configuration problems today. With Dovecot 2.0 still in beta, I'll just sit back and wait. Thank you very much for all your help today! My next task? Figu

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 11:40 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Spoke too fast. I can't move mailboxes across namespaces. Is that > a limitation? For example, if I have a mailbox in 'mail/' that I want > to move into 'mail-Archives/' I get an error saying: > > The current command did not s

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Spoke too fast. I can't move mailboxes across namespaces. Is that a limitation? For example, if I have a mailbox in 'mail/' that I want to move into 'mail-Archives/' I get an error saying: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Can't rename mailbox to anoth

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: Deleting and recreating the Outlook account might be the easiest fix Ok, that solved the seeing everything problem. But Outlook still won't see the user's 'mail/' folder with mailboxes in it. Could that be because I don't have a 'subscription

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Timo Sirainen wrote: Deleting and recreating the Outlook account might be the easiest fix Ok, that solved the seeing everything problem. But Outlook still won't see the user's 'mail/' folder with mailboxes in it. Could that be because I don't have a 'subscriptions=' line in that namespace?

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 11:06 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Thunderbird will see exactly what I have subscribed to, stuff in > mail/ and stuff in mail-Archives/. > Outlook will *not* see mail/, at all. And it *will* see > *everything* that's in mail-Archives/, whether I'm subscribed

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Timo Sirainen wrote: Well, clients can become confused a bit too easily. Try talking IMAP protocol directly: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation After logging in, the important commands to try would be: a LIST "" * b LSUB "" * c SELECT mail-Archive/something-that-actually-exists d SUBSCRIB

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:21 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > namespace private { > separator = / > prefix = "mail/" > location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > inbox = yes > hidden = no > list = no # for v1.1+ > } > > namespace private { > separator = / > pref

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Timo Sirainen wrote: location = mbox:~/Mail-Archives (the :LAYOUT=fs is unnecessary, because it's the default with mboxes anyway.) Made the above change as you suggested. That turned my namespaces into: namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail/" location = mbox:~/mail:INBO

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:52 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Things would probably be simpler if you used prefix="" here. > The reason I used a prefix is for the way things show up in > Thunderbird and Outlook. Without the prefix, it all falls under the > same "tre

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Timo Sirainen wrote: Things would probably be simpler if you used prefix="" here. The reason I used a prefix is for the way things show up in Thunderbird and Outlook. Without the prefix, it all falls under the same "tree" as their INBOX. By adding the prefix, they get an extra level calle

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:46 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > namespace private { > separator = / > prefix = "mail/" Things would probably be simpler if you used prefix="" here. > location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u So you've mboxes.. > namespace private { > separator = /

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ashley M. Kirchner put forth on 2/17/2010 9:46 AM: Hi Ashley, sorry no one had tried to help you yet. I'm not a dovecot expert, just a user, but I'll try to help. >But when I'm in Thunderbird and I try to subscribe to anything that > falls inside of ~/mail-Archives/ it won't work. I can bro

[Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-17 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I'm going to assume this is just not possible, or that no one has an answer, which would lead me back to uw-imap since it does work as-is. So I'll post it again, hoping that there is a solution for this setup and that folks have just been too busy to help think about it and/or help come up