dovecot - Aug 2010 - Subscription to folders and subscription file

Hello,

I'm using dovecot 1.0.7 and have a problem with subscription files.

The documentation says that this file ("subscriptions" or
".subscriptions"
in the root of the maildir, I've tried both) holds the informations about
the subscribed folders.

I've created such a file with these lines:

Trash
Sent
Drafts
INBOX.prova
INBOX.prova4

And configured a client (Thunderbird) with INBOX.prova and INBOX.prova3
subscribed. So, I have 2 different configurations: one for the client and
one for the server.

Then, I turned off the first PC and configured with default options a
second client in a second PC. I expected that

- it subscribed with the entries in the subscriptions file
or
- it subscribed with a default option, that is All Folders or None

But it subscribed exactly the entries subscribed by the first client in
the first PC.

So, since I grepped "prova3" on all the directory structure and I
found
nothing, I think that dovecot is saving these informations in a binary
format somewhere. Is it right? And, if it is right, how can I configure it
to use the "subscriptions" file (or any other text file) as said in
the
documentation? Maybe I have to upgrade dovecot to do this?

thank you in advance

Fabio Ferrari

On 11.8.2010, at 11.07, Fabio Ferrari wrote:
> The documentation says that this file ("subscriptions" or
".subscriptions"
> in the root of the maildir, I've tried both) holds the informations
about
> the subscribed folders.
> 
> I've created such a file with these lines:
> 
> Trash
> Sent
> Drafts
> INBOX.prova
> INBOX.prova4
This could be right..
> And configured a client (Thunderbird) with INBOX.prova and INBOX.prova3
> subscribed. So, I have 2 different configurations: one for the client and
> one for the server.
Doesn't sound right.. They should be equal always.

Try talking IMAP protocol and seeing if the subscriptions file you created is
correct: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation

Especially see that the LIST and LSUB output contains the mailbox names the same
way. You can also use SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE commands to change the
subscriptions.
> So, since I grepped "prova3" on all the directory structure and I
found
> nothing, I think that dovecot is saving these informations in a binary
> format somewhere. Is it right?
No, it doesn't. With Maildir it's in "subscriptions" text
file.

dovecot -n output might have been useful too.