dovecot - Sep 2009 - Thunderbird does not find the right folders :-(

Moika,

Overnight, I migrated my user-mails from uw-imap to dovecot-maildir. I used 
the uw2dovecot.pl script to convert all mails and changed exim, too.
Receiving mails works fine allready, but nobody can access the usual 
subscribed folders with thunderbird.
Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a folder
called "_"
(underline).
People getting mad about me as the cannot find their stuff any more in the 
usual folders.

What can I do that they have the converted stuff in the same folders as 
they had before?

Sterkel
    
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On 09/15/2009 10:10 AM sterkel at gmx.de wrote:
> Moika,
> 
> Overnight, I migrated my user-mails from uw-imap to dovecot-maildir. I used
> the uw2dovecot.pl script to convert all mails and changed exim, too.
> Receiving mails works fine allready, but nobody can access the usual 
> subscribed folders with thunderbird.
> Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a folder
called "_"
> (underline).
> People getting mad about me as the cannot find their stuff any more in the 
> usual folders.
> 
> What can I do that they have the converted stuff in the same folders as 
> they had before?
Have you configured any namespace? If so, please provide the output from
`dovecot -n`.
If not, you could try it with setting up namespaces:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP


Regards,
Pascal
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Hi!
Thanks for the fast reply. I have had no namespaces, now I tried to insert 
the namespace-exampe for uw-compatibility, unfortunately, that was no help.
I restarted dovecot and thunderbird, but it cannot find the default 
folders.
I always get "NONEXISTENT" message.
Creating new folders work. Moving mail to the new folders work, too.

The inbox is there, too.
I can see in the "_"-folder a directory "Maildir and
subdirectories named
__Sent, __Junk and so on.


>             
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:18:59 +0200
> Von: Pascal Volk <user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org>
> An: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird does not find the right  folders :-(
> 
>             On 09/15/2009 10:10 AM sterkel at gmx.de wrote:
> > Moika,
> > 
> > Overnight, I migrated my user-mails from uw-imap to dovecot-maildir. I
> used 
> > the uw2dovecot.pl script to convert all mails and changed exim, too.
> > Receiving mails works fine allready, but nobody can access the usual 
> > subscribed folders with thunderbird.
> > Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a
folder called
> "_" 
> > (underline).
> > People getting mad about me as the cannot find their stuff any more in
> the 
> > usual folders.
> > 
> > What can I do that they have the converted stuff in the same folders
as
> > they had before?
> 
> Have you configured any namespace? If so, please provide the output from
> `dovecot -n`.
> If not, you could try it with setting up namespaces:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Pascal
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> 
        
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On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:10 AM, sterkel at gmx.de wrote:
> Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a folder
> called "_"
> (underline).
I don't really understand what this means. Show the output of "ls
-a"
in the user's maildir?

Hi Timo,

No, I mean, when I try to subscribe folders, I get offered a folder
"_"
with some subfolders.
I do a screenshot, its maybe better to understand.
The "real" folders in ~/Maildir look ok.


>         
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:07:21 +0300
> Von: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> An: sterkel at gmx.de
> CC: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird does not find the right  folders :-(
> 
>         On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:10 AM, sterkel at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a
folder
> > called "_"
> > (underline).
> 
> I don't really understand what this means. Show the output of "ls
-a"
> in the user's maildir?
> 
    
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So this could be a client problem and nothing to do with Dovecot?  
Getting precise IMAP protocol traffic dumps would be helpful.

On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Sterkel Brandke wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> No, I mean, when I try to subscribe folders, I get offered a folder  
> "_"
> with some subfolders.
> I do a screenshot, its maybe better to understand.
> The "real" folders in ~/Maildir look ok.
>
>
>
>>
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:07:21 +0300
>> Von: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
>> An: sterkel at gmx.de
>> CC: dovecot at dovecot.org
>> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird does not find the right   
>> folders :-(
>>
>>        On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:10 AM, sterkel at gmx.de wrote:
>>
>>> Via "subscriptions" I can find the converted folders in a
folder
>>> called "_"
>>> (underline).
>>
>> I don't really understand what this means. Show the output of
"ls -a"
>> in the user's maildir?
>>
>
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On 9/15/2009, sterkel at gmx.de (sterkel at gmx.de)
wrote:
> People getting mad about me as the cannot find their stuff any more in the 
> usual folders.
So you performed a migration on a live system without testing it first?

I'd get mad at you too! ;)

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