dovecot - Feb 2009 - Maildir with INBOX and other folders at same level

Hello-

I have set up Dovecot before and feel fairly comfortable with it but
am having some issues with a new setup and have not been able to find
a solution via Google or the list archives.

I use offlineiimap to sync an IMAP account with an email provider.
After the sync is complete, my ~/Maildir is set up with a folder
called INBOX (with cur,new,tmp inside) and all my other folders set up
at same level as INBOX (also with cur,new,tmp inside):

~/Maildir
    INBOX
        cur
        new
        tmp
    Otherfolder1
        cur
        new
        tmp
    Otherfolder2
        cur
        new
        tmp
etc..

This email provider says that they use '/' as the IMAP folder
separator so '.' can be used in folder names.

Anyway, I am using Dovecot 1.0.15 on Debian Lenny and can't seem to
get Dovecot to recognize this folder structure and display it in my
MUA.  In my dovecot.conf, I have:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

When I fire up my MUA it connects fine but does not display anything
-- the INBOX is empty and the other folders are not there.  I have
tried various configurations with the namespace private {} section but
without success.  What am I missing?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 07:18 -0500, Seth Rhudy wrote:
> ~/Maildir
>     INBOX
>         cur
>         new
>         tmp
>     Otherfolder1
..
> Anyway, I am using Dovecot 1.0.15 on Debian Lenny and can't seem to
> get Dovecot to recognize this folder structure and display it in my
> MUA.  
Dovecot v1.0 supports only Maildir++ layout:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++

So you can't get Dovecot v1.0 to recognize such structure. With v1.1 you
could add :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location.
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 07:18 -0500, Seth Rhudy wrote:
>> ~/Maildir
>>     INBOX
>>         cur
>>         new
>>         tmp
>>     Otherfolder1
> ..
>> Anyway, I am using Dovecot 1.0.15 on Debian Lenny and can't seem to
>> get Dovecot to recognize this folder structure and display it in my
>> MUA.
>
> Dovecot v1.0 supports only Maildir++ layout:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++
>
> So you can't get Dovecot v1.0 to recognize such structure. With v1.1
you
> could add :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location.
>
Timo,

Understood.  Thank you for the information and assistance!