Hello, I'm sorry if this is a repeat, a few choice searches into google didn't help and I found no search for the archives. I can no longer put of moving away from UW-IMAP. Dovecot certainly seems to be the right choice, but I am having problems getting it to do what I need it to for all my mail. The machine is running the dist version, 0.99.12. I have a system mailbox and a large MH mail tree (~25K messages.) I saw that dovecot didn't support mh trees like UW did. It looked like maildir would be a good common target. So I found a script that would convert the mbox to maildir and have adjusted postfix, and that all works fine. Then I found mh2maildir, and ran it over my entire mh tree. Then I tried just for a test copying one of the small top level directories under ~/Maildir, but my MUA (mulberry) doesn't see it. So how do I get dovecot to see things other than the inbox in maildir format? How can I easily test to see if it's dovecot's problem or the MUA? thanks for any help, jerry Jerry Scharf laguna way consulting
jerry scharf wrote:> Then I found mh2maildir, and ran it over my entire mh tree. Then I > tried just for a test copying one of the small top level directories > under ~/Maildir, but my MUA (mulberry) doesn't see it. >That script worked a treat for me. My MUAs are Thunderbird and mutt on OS/X & Solaris. I did briefly try Mulberry but I couldn't get it to understand IMAP folders / subfolders when served by dovecot (1.0 test-something). It ceretainly didn't just work out of the box like mutt & Thunderbird did. Dunno if it is just a case of configuring Mulberry right or if there is some deeper problem, but the combo of mulberry / dovecot / IMAP subfolders has caused problems for me.
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:36 -0800, jerry scharf wrote:> So how do I get dovecot to see things other than the inbox in maildir > format? How can I easily test to see if it's dovecot's problem or the MUA?The directory layout is in Maildir++ format. That mostly means that the maildir directory name must begin with '.'. You could try creating some mailboxes with your IMAP client to see how it gets written to filesystem. -------------- 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: <dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20050403/49fb3145/attachment-0001.bin>