dovecot - Aug 2009 - Problems with dovecot/sendmail combi.

Hi,

I am really stuck here. I am trying to setup imap for an external mail server. I
have a freebsd server running sendmail / dovecot. I am transfering the existing
mail from an exchange 2003 server to the mailserver using imapsync. This works
fine, but gives errors when it tries to make a submap, also thunderbird gives an
error "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes" when I try to
make a submap. I found out that it has something to do with the mbox not able to
have submaps and there should be a workaround using namespaces. I tried several
setups but keep getting errors. Does anybody know how to configure namespaces to
allow submaps?

dovecot -n
# 1.2.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE i386
log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth: no
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_process_per_connection: no
login_processes_count: 4
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_gid: 0
mail_access_groups: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_debug: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  prefix: #mbox/
  location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
  inbox: yes
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  location: maildir:~/mail
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
lda:
  postmaster_address: postmaster at example.com
  sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  debug_passwords: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

mbox is in /var/mail/%u
and home dir is in /home/mailusers/%u

On 8/20/2009, Roger Berger (dovecot at berger.nl) wrote:
> I found out that it has something to do with the mbox not able to
> have submaps and there should be a workaround using namespaces. I
> tried several setups but keep getting errors. Does anybody know how
> to configure namespaces to allow submaps?
Assuming you mean subFOLDERS, my recommendation is to convert to maildir
at the same time.

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

Yes,

But how do I do that and does that inflict all users on the server (only a part
of the users use imap). there are about 200 pop users on the mail server and
only 50 of them need imap.

Thanks,

Roger

Charles Marcus wrote ..
> On 8/20/2009, Roger Berger (dovecot at berger.nl) wrote:
> > I found out that it has something to do with the mbox not able to
> > have submaps and there should be a workaround using namespaces. I
> > tried several setups but keep getting errors. Does anybody know how
> > to configure namespaces to allow submaps?
> 
> Assuming you mean subFOLDERS, my recommendation is to convert to maildir
> at the same time.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Charles