dovecot - Oct 2009 - virtual Folder Plugin with "." Separator: [NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist

Hello,

I've switched from courier-imap to dovecot to benefit from the virtual
folder feature. I'm using dovecot 1.2.6 on Gentoo Linux. However, I',
getting the message "[NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist:
<name>" from
Thunderbird when I try to access any virtual folder.

The relevant setup:

mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir

namespace private {
    separator = .
    inbox = yes
    hidden = yes
    list = yes
}

namespace private {
   prefix = virtual.
   separator = .
   location = virtual:~/.maildir/.virtual
}

I then created the folders ~user/.maildir/.virtual and
~user/.maildir/.virtual.test and placed a file in .virtual.test with the
contents

=====*
   all
=====
After a dovecot restart I'm getting the error message:
"[NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: test"

Where did I make the mistake in the configuration? Is the "." path
separator a problem case?

ciao,
Elmar

Hello,

Elmar Weber wrote:
> I'm getting the message "[NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist:
<name>" from
> Thunderbird when I try to access any virtual folder.
> 
> namespace private {
>   prefix = virtual.
>   separator = .
>   location = virtual:~/.maildir/.virtual
> }
 > [...]


I did some testing, and everything works when I seperate the folders 
with / instead with ., so when I create a folder 
~/.maildir/.virtual/test with a dovecot-virtual file everything works, 
not when I following the naming scheme I'd derive from the 
configuration: ~/.maildir/.virtual.test

Is this a problem of me missunderstanding or a configuration error?

ciao,
Elmar

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 21:35 +0200, Elmar Weber wrote:
> mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir
> 
> namespace private {
>    prefix = virtual.
>    separator = .
>    location = virtual:~/.maildir/.virtual
> }
The main problem I see here is that by placing virtual namespace to
".virtual" directory under maildir, it's visible as a regular
mailbox
called "virtual". See if all your problems go away simply by renaming
".virtual" to "virtual".

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