using both thunderbird and roundcube with dovecot IMAP, I can create
all the folders I desire, but cannot create subfolders; I also cannot
delete a folder once created.
I get a very un-informative error message from each. Is there a special
setting required to permit sub-folder creation? folder deletion?
I've got 770 mail:mail virtual_user_home
770 mail:mail mail_sub-directory
770 mail:mail .imap
660 mail:mail .subscriptions
700 mail:mail Drafts
700 mail:mail INBOX
700 mail:mail Junk
700 mail:mail Sent
700 mail:mail Trash
Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
On 01/02/2010 09:02 AM Jim Pazarena wrote:> using both thunderbird and roundcube with dovecot IMAP, I can create > all the folders I desire, but cannot create subfolders; I also cannot > delete a folder once created. > > I get a very un-informative error message from each. Is there a special > setting required to permit sub-folder creation? folder deletion? > > I've got 770 mail:mail virtual_user_home > 770 mail:mail mail_sub-directory > 770 mail:mail .imap > 660 mail:mail .subscriptions > 700 mail:mail Drafts > 700 mail:mail INBOX > 700 mail:mail Junk > 700 mail:mail Sent > 700 mail:mail Trash > > Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! >My suggestions: * show "a very un-informative error message from each" * paste dovecot -n output * play the game again - using telnet, e.g.: 4 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" 4 OK List completed. 5 CREATE INBOX/sub 5 OK Create completed. 6 CREATE INBOX/sub/subsub 6 OK Create completed. 7 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX/sub" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/sub/subsub" 7 OK List completed. 8 DELETE INBOX/sub/subsub 8 OK Delete completed. 9 DELETE INBOX/sub 9 OK Delete completed. 10 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" 10 OK List completed. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: cafebabe.1000200 at localdomain.org
On 2.1.2010, at 3.02, Jim Pazarena wrote:> using both thunderbird and roundcube with dovecot IMAP, I can create > all the folders I desire, but cannot create subfolders; I also cannot > delete a folder once created. > > I get a very un-informative error message from each. Is there a special > setting required to permit sub-folder creation? folder deletion? > > I've got 770 mail:mail virtual_user_home > 770 mail:mail mail_sub-directory > 770 mail:mail .imapSo you're using mbox format. It doesn't support folders that have mails and subfolders. So either a) Switch to maildir format and everything will work as you expect b) When you want to create a folder that can have subfolders, create e.g. "foo/", with the trailing / character. Or you could directly just create "foo/bar" without foo even existing. The folder deletion is probably also because of TB stupidness. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients#Thunderbird