I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system
recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it
to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies.
I have the following in dovecot.conf:-
default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
(I also originally tried with %h/Mail)
IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the
mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or
so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems.
Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and
folders that it's created itself?
--
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by
incompetence."
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:13 +0100, Chris Green wrote:> I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system > recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it > to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies. > > I have the following in dovecot.conf:- > default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%uLooks ok.> IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the > mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or > so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems. > > Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and > folders that it's created itself?You didn't have IMAP server installed before Dovecot? Either client has specified a wrong IMAP namespace, or it's simply just that it's showing only subscribed mailboxes and you've not subscribed to any. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MissingMailboxes may help some more. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20050614/b5fb6288/attachment-0001.bin>
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:21:37PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:13 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system > > recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it > > to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies. > > > > I have the following in dovecot.conf:- > > default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > > Looks ok. > > > IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the > > mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or > > so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems. > > > > Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and > > folders that it's created itself? > > You didn't have IMAP server installed before Dovecot? Either client has > specified a wrong IMAP namespace, or it's simply just that it's showing > only subscribed mailboxes and you've not subscribed to any. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MissingMailboxes may help some more. >I haven't specified any namespaces as far as I know. I'm testing with squirrelmail which I haven't used with any IMAP server before and with mutt. Neither of these can see anything. If I create a folder called 'sqtest' using squirrelmail I get $HOME/Mail/Mail/sqtest created. $HOME/Mail already exists, dovecot seems to be creating both the new Mail subdirectory and sqtest. I.e. I'm getting an extra 'layer' that I don't want. (I really don't see that subscribing to mailboxes should make any difference, I know this is an MUA issue but as I understand it SUBSCRIBE is *NOT* the same as make visible. Certainly mutt doesn't equate the two. The RFC certainly implies that SUBSCRIBE is for use with newsgroups, not mailboxes.) -- Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."