Hi all, this is my first post to this list, and hope someone can help me ;-) I'm running dovecot.x86_64 1.0.7-7.el5 on a CentOS release 5.5 (Final) box. when a user tries to create a sub-subfolder in Archiv, he gets the message: "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes" Mailclient is MS Outlook 2003 SP3 is there a spezial configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf needed? MailLocation is by default in /etc/dovecot: # See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n # # <doc/wiki/MailLocation.txt> # #mail_location Users have there IMAP folders in "~/mail" # pwd /home/bema/mail # ls -l total 552 -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 9 16:21 Archiv -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:04 Aufgaben -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 4 16:05 Drafts -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:03 Gel&APY-schte Objekte -rw------- 1 bema bema 553349 Aug 7 12:05 Gesendete Objekte -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 11:50 Junk-E-Mail -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:04 Postausgang -rw------- 1 bema bema 887 Aug 7 12:05 Sent -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 4 16:05 Trash many thanks Richard
> when a user tries to create a sub-subfolder in Archiv, he gets the message: > > "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes" > > is there a spezial configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf needed? >>From memory I believe it depends on the format of the mailboxes. Ifyou're using Maildir format then you can create sub-folders, but if you're using mbox you can't. It's possible to convert mailboxes from mbox to Maildir, but if you have a lot of users with a lot of mail then this could be a big task. Also, remember that if you do change format you also need to modify Postfix (assuming you're using Postfix) to deliver to that format.
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 17:02 +0200, Richard Gliebe wrote:> when a user tries to create a sub-subfolder in Archiv, he gets the message: > > "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes"Like Phill said, the problem is mbox format. If you don't want to switch away from it, you can still create Archiv/stuff, if you just don't first create Archiv as a mailbox. In IMAP protocol terms you need to: Create Archiv/ directory to filesystem: 1 CREATE Archiv/ Create the mailbox file: 2 CREATE Archiv/child The 1 step is actually optional. In any case you can probably do both in the client UI as well by just adding the '/' manually.