dovecot - Jun 2004 - Re: [ismail] Re: using Dovecot

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:26:01 +0000, "Kelley Reynolds"
<kelley at insidesystems.net> wrote:

>
>I've never used dovecot, but I know that those directories aren't
what IMAP servers generally expect when looking for a rootfolderpath.
>
>For example, courier is always 'INBOX', uw-imap is usually but not
always 'mail', and sometimes it's just a blank string. My guess is
that for you, it's one of those three. If your mail is in a 'mail'
directory, I suggest just putting 'mail' and not '~/mail'.
>
>Kelley Reynolds
>President
>Inside Systems, Inc
>
>___________________________________________________________________
I'm going to cross post this to the dovecot list in case someone there has
an
idea. To bring those people up to speed: I'm evaluating ISMail
(www.insidesystems.net) as a replacement for IMP.  I'm having problems
configuring the IMAP settings to work with Dovecot.

==
I've got some progress. I set rootmailfolder to "~/mail".  When I
login to
ISMail, it creates the directory ~/inbox as follows:

  mail
      Sent Items

then dies.

If I set rootmailfolder to as "rootmailfolder=" with no argument, it
creates

   .imap
      INBOX
          .customflags  
          .imap.index.data  
          .imap.index.tree
          .imap.index   
          .imap.index.log
then dies

If I set rootmail folder to "INBOX"

    INBOX
       Sent Items
    .subscriptions
    .imap
       INBOX
         .customflags  
         .imap.index.data  
         .imap.index.tree
         .imap.index   
         .imap.index.log



--
   Steve

On 24.6.2004, at 01:19, Steven Stern wrote:
>> I've never used dovecot, but I know that those directories
aren't
>> what IMAP servers generally expect when looking for a rootfolderpath.
>>
>> For example, courier is always 'INBOX', uw-imap is usually but
not
>> always 'mail', and sometimes it's just a blank string. My
guess is
>> that for you, it's one of those three. If your mail is in a
'mail'
>> directory, I suggest just putting 'mail' and not
'~/mail'.
>>
> I'm going to cross post this to the dovecot list in case someone there 
> has an
> idea. To bring those people up to speed: I'm evaluating ISMail
> (www.insidesystems.net) as a replacement for IMP.  I'm having problems
> configuring the IMAP settings to work with Dovecot.
You can configure Dovecot to put the mail anywhere you like by changing 
default_mail_env setting in config file. rootfolderpath should be empty 
always.
> If I set rootmailfolder to as "rootmailfolder=" with no argument,
it
> creates
>
>    .imap
>       INBOX
>           .customflags
>           .imap.index.data
>           .imap.index.tree
>           .imap.index
>           .imap.index.log
> then dies
Dies? See if there's error messages in log file (/var/log/mail.log 
maybe).
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