Started using dovecot and I am very impressed by its speed. I am confused by what it is expecting the format of the Maildir directory to be in. I currently have ~/Maildir which contains new, cur, and tmp all containing email that should be in my inbox and it pops up correctly as such when I connect to dovecot using Mutt. After the connection a new .INBOX is created under ~/Maildir with sym links back to new, cur, and tmp. The problem arrises when I want to view email from another folder, I have a folder called "test" which contains some email also in Maildir format, however when I attempt to view this email I only get an empty listing with the ".." to go one directory up. Thanks. Gareth Greenaway -- "My friends say I should act my age, What's my age again?" Gareth J. Greenaway | gareth at wiked.org
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 05:10, Gareth J. Greenaway wrote:> to new, cur, and tmp. The problem arrises when I want to view email > from another folder, I have a folder called "test" which contains some > email also in Maildir format, however when I attempt to view this > email I only get an empty listing with the ".." to go one directory > up. Thanks.Dovecot wants the folders directory names to begin with a dot, so name it ".test". Subfolders would be named as ".test.subfolder". This is compatible with Courier's Maildir++ format.
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 09:25, Gareth J. Greenaway wrote:> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:51:21AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Dovecot wants the folders directory names to begin with a dot, so name > > it ".test". Subfolders would be named as ".test.subfolder". This is > > compatible with Courier's Maildir++ format. > > Right. that is what I have as im using the Maildir folders from > Courier but I still do not see mail showing up in them. The folder > itself shows up but no mail.Oh, I think then you're just using mutt a bit wrong :) Enter-key goes inside a subfolder, space-key selects the folder. A folder can itself contain mail but it can also contain subfolders, so this is needed. With Courier you probably got away with just enter-key because you didn't have such subfolders and Courier gives mutt hints about if folders have subfolders. Dovecot doesn't yet support that extension so mutt always assumes they have subfolders.