dovecot - Sep 2011 - doveadm mailbox list shows file system directories as mailboxes

Hello.
In our dovecvot we use mbox format with the default filesystem layout.
Therefore it is not possible to have mailboxes which are subfolders of  
other mailboxes containing messages.
The command "doveadm mailbox list" includes the file system  
directories, that contain only subfolders, as normal mailboxes in the  
output:

archiv
archiv/daemon
archiv/dovecot

Did I miss something in the dovecot configuration or is there a bug in  
the command "doveadm mailbox list"?

# 2.0.13: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v
auth_verbose = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no
listen = imap.hrz.uni-giessen.de localhost
mail_fsync = always
mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_nfs_index = yes
mail_nfs_storage = yes
mail_plugins = mail_log notify
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope  
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric  
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify  
environment mailbox date
mmap_disable = yes
namespace {
   inbox = yes
   location    prefix    separator = /
   type = private
}
namespace {
   hidden = yes
   list = no
   location    prefix = Mail/
   separator = /
   subscriptions = yes
   type = private
}

Thanks, J?rgen
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J?rgen Obermann <Juergen.Obermann at hrz.uni-giessen.de> writes:
> Hello.
> In our dovecvot we use mbox format with the default filesystem layout.
> Therefore it is not possible to have mailboxes which are subfolders of 
other
> mailboxes containing messages.
> The command "doveadm mailbox list" includes the file system 
directories, that
> contain only subfolders, as normal mailboxes in the  output:
>
> archiv
> archiv/daemon
> archiv/dovecot
Did you perhaps do a 'doveadm mailbox subscribe' with a wildcard and the
shell expanded it?

micah

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 11:52 +0200, J?rgen Obermann
wrote:
> Hello.
> In our dovecvot we use mbox format with the default filesystem layout.
> Therefore it is not possible to have mailboxes which are subfolders of  
> other mailboxes containing messages.
> The command "doveadm mailbox list" includes the file system  
> directories, that contain only subfolders, as normal mailboxes in the  
> output:
> 
> archiv
> archiv/daemon
> archiv/dovecot
> 
> Did I miss something in the dovecot configuration or is there a bug in  
> the command "doveadm mailbox list"?
It's more like a feature.. For example if there exists "archiv"
directory without children, I don't think it should be invisible in the
list. Maybe there could be a new parameter to hide \Noselect mailboxes.