dovecot - Oct 2008 - displaying IMAP folders that are in ~/mail/ at same level as inbox

Hi,

We are moving our current IMAP based system to a new one with dovecot

All I can get about the current IMAP (imapd) system is:
IMAP4rev1 v12.264 

dovecot version is:
1.0.rc15


In the existing system I can see IMAP folders that are in ~/mail/ with many mail
clients (e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook, Seamonkey and horde).  These folders are
presented in the client software as being at the same level as the inbox - i.e.
not inside the folder "mail"

On the new system, horde webmail shows the other folders in ~/mail/ as being at
the same level as the inbox.  But ... all the other mail clients above now show
a folder (directory) called mail with the imap folders inside.

Is there some way to set this up so these other mail clients see the imap
folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox as we have on the old
server?

Thanks,

David

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David London a ?crit :
> In the existing system I can see IMAP folders that are in ~/mail/
> with many mail clients (e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook, Seamonkey and
> horde).  These folders are presented in the client software as being
> at the same level as the inbox - i.e. not inside the folder
"mail"
> 
> On the new system, horde webmail shows the other folders in ~/mail/
> as being at the same level as the inbox.  But ... all the other mail
> clients above now show a folder (directory) called mail with the imap
> folders inside.
> 
> Is there some way to set this up so these other mail clients see the
> imap folders in ~/mail/ as being at the same level as the inbox as we
> have on the old server?
Basically, you need to use the mail_location in dovecot.conf, as such:
mail_location =  mbox:~/mail

You might also need to check the files ~/.mailboxlist, used by UW-IMAP,
and ~/mail/.subscriptions, used by Dovecot. They contain the list of
subscribed directories, relative to the root defined. For me, they were
identical enough that I simply did a hardlink from one to another.

HTH,

Laurent
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On 10/21/2008, David London (d.london at live.com)
wrote:
> dovecot version is:
> 1.0.rc15
Do yourself a favor and upgrade that before going any further... if
using debian, use the latest from backports...

rc15 is very old.

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Best regards,

Charles

> El Mi?rcoles, 22 de Octubre de 2008 a las 04:04, David London escribi?:
>> Thanks Laurent (and Charles re the age of the dovecot software),
>>
>> It looks like we've got what you say is needed (see configuration
file
>> below).  In addition the test accounts are brand new ones on the test
>> system, not ones that have been moved over so .mailboxlist is not there
-
>> just .subscriptions
>>
>> Maybe what I'm trying to do is just not possible ...
>
> You can get it in the client. For example, in thunderbird, in Server
> settings->advanced should be something like "IMAP server
directory" (I'm
> using an spanish version of thunderbird, so don't know the exact
english name
> for the option). Similar options exists for other clients.
>
> HTH.
> --
> Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.
Thanks Jose,

Yes
in the advanced options on email clients there is always a place to put
the root folder path or (some similar name) and on the old server I
used ~/mail/ in all of the email clients (thunderbird, outlook,
seamonkey etc) and that worked fine.

Doing that on the new
dovecot based server produces the effect I've described - a folder
called mail visible at the same level as inbox and the other IMAP
folders inside that.  On the older imapd based server doing the same
thing produced a view of inbox with no mail folder ... just the IMAP
folders in it displayed at the same level as inbox.

Regards,

David


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