dovecot - Aug 2009 - Trying to get dovecot and squirrelmail talking

I have been using dovecot+squirrelmail with no problems on my Fedora box 
(currently at F10).  I've been using a simple mail location string along the
lines of 'mbox:~/usr/mail/%u:INBOX=mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u' (sorry,
that's
off the top of my head, I can't get into my box from here at the moment).

   Essentially:  standard mbox inbox in /var/spool/mail/[user], plus mbox 
files under ~/usr/mail.  These latter are for remote access to archived 
Thunderbird files, which are [currently] mbox format.  This works fine.


   However, I've had some slight issues elsewhere which I feel would be 
eased or solved by making my INBOX use maildir format, and keeping mails I 
want to remote-access more often in the top level maildir there (instead of 
always having to dip into the TB mboxes). To that end, I tried setting up:

# want to be able to add sibling and child folders here
namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix    location = /var/spool/mail/%u
   inbox = yes
   hidden = no
   list = yes
}
# And the legacy mbox files go here under 'local'
namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix = local/
   location = mbox:~/usr/mail
   hidden = no
   list = yes
}

   (with appropriate an procmail change for maildir delivery)


   Now, this pretty much worked the way I wanted.  However, afterwards, 
trying to connect from squirrelmail I had it say that there were no [IMAP] 
folders to subscribe to, including the INBOX.

   I couldn't se any errors, either in /var/log/maillog or http's logs.

   Have I got something wrong?  Am I trying to do something that's doomed to
failure?

-- 
[neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil at fnx ~]# exit

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:09 +0100, Neil Bird wrote:
>    However, I've had some slight issues elsewhere which I feel would be
> eased or solved by making my INBOX use maildir format, and keeping mails I 
> want to remote-access more often in the top level maildir there (instead of
> always having to dip into the TB mboxes). To that end, I tried setting up:
> 
> # want to be able to add sibling and child folders here
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    prefix >    location = /var/spool/mail/%u
location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u

is more robust.
>    inbox = yes
>    hidden = no
>    list = yes
> }
>    Now, this pretty much worked the way I wanted.  However, afterwards, 
> trying to connect from squirrelmail I had it say that there were no [IMAP] 
> folders to subscribe to, including the INBOX.
Try talking directly with IMAP: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation

The "c LIST "" *" part especially. Does it show anything?
Set
mail_debug=yes and it'll log the directories it's really using. Do you
see your mails there?

Are you using Maildirs correctly? Note that Dovecot uses Maildir++
layout by default:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#Directory_Structure
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