I'm having a problem with Mail.app and imap folders. I've got a new install of dovecot 1.0beta2, and am only experiencing this problem with Mail. Mutt works as expected, as well as thunderbird. When I create a folder using Mail.app, it is written to ~/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder, which would be fine, if I wasn't telling everything that I wanted no prefixes. If I move that folder to ~/Maildir/.newfolder, Mail.app can no longer see it, but mutt and thunderbird can. Thunderbird _CAN_ see the folders created as .INBOX.Folder, and even shows it as a subfolder of my inbox, but Mutt completely refuses to see it. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
I Mike, I confirm this bug (a Mail.app bug I think), If I create this subfolder twice I get an imap error "mailbox exists". If I create a second folder, both folder appear ! I can reproduce this bug in .INBOX (~/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder) and in the root directory (~/Maildir/.newfolder) If I delete one of both folder, both folder disappear ... Do you confirm that ? Cyril Feraudet Le 10 f?vr. 06 ? 17:38, Mike Garfias a ?crit : I'm having a problem with Mail.app and imap folders. I've got a new install of dovecot 1.0beta2, and am only experiencing this problem with Mail. Mutt works as expected, as well as thunderbird. When I create a folder using Mail.app, it is written to ~/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder, which would be fine, if I wasn't telling everything that I wanted no prefixes. If I move that folder to ~/Maildir/.newfolder, Mail.app can no longer see it, but mutt and thunderbird can. Thunderbird _CAN_ see the folders created as .INBOX.Folder, and even shows it as a subfolder of my inbox, but Mutt completely refuses to see it. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 09:38 -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:> I'm having a problem with Mail.app and imap folders. I've got a new install > of dovecot 1.0beta2, and am only experiencing this problem with Mail. Mutt > works as expected, as well as thunderbird. > > When I create a folder using Mail.app, it is written to > ~/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder, which would be fine, if I wasn't telling > everything that I wanted no prefixes. If I move that folder to > ~/Maildir/.newfolder, Mail.app can no longer see it, but mutt and thunderbird > can. Thunderbird _CAN_ see the folders created as .INBOX.Folder, and even > shows it as a subfolder of my inbox, but Mutt completely refuses to see it. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?Looks like you've set IMAP prefix to "INBOX." in Mail.app's configuration. Remove that. -------------- 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/20060212/7ddc0517/attachment.bin>
I'm wondering if this is a version issue with Mail.app? Are you on OS X 10.3 or 10.4? The reason I ask is that we also migrated from Courier IMAP to Dovecot 1.0alpha5 and then beta3, and we did not have this problem with Mail.app that either of you are describing. I did have to remove the "INBOX." prefix from my Mail.app configurations. I also renamed all of the existing folders in my Maildir from INBOX.foldername to .foldername, because after removing the "INBOX." prefix Mail.app could not see them. Before I renamed all of the existing folders and changed the prefix in Mail.app, I had also tried setting up alternate namespaces as described in the wiki documentation for converting from Courier, but that did not seem to work. Mail.app and Thunderbird clients could not see their IMAP folders with the courier-style namespace configuration. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Feb 14, 2006, at 8:45 AM, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:44:53 -0800 > From: Steve Pellegrin <steve at convoglio.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mail.app help > To: Mike Garfias <mike at garfias.org> > > Sorry to respond so late to this, perhaps my experience will help. > > I believe that Mike's problem is caused by weird behavior in > Mail.App. I had the same issue after switching from Courier IMAP to > Dovecot 1.0beta2. (Courier requires the INBOX prefix). > > I only experienced this problem for folders that I defined myself. In > other words, the "standard" Sent, Trash and so on were OK. What I > found was that if I had a custom folder, call it Dovecot, and a rule > that directed mail list messages into that folder, Mail.App would > insist on creating INBOX.Dovecot, even though .Dovecot already > existed. > > It's as if Mail.App had internalized the INBOX prefix in some secret > place and would not let go of it even though I changed the prefix > setting to be empty. > > My solution was to delete my mail account, shut down Mail.App, re- > launch it, and recreate the mail account. Now, everything works as > expected. > > -Steve