[Dovecot] imapsync, namespaces and Dovecot 2.x

Timo Sirainen
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:49:48 -0000

On 2.4.2012, at 19.11, Aleix Dorca wrote:

> I recently tried to migrate from Exchange using imapsync. It didn't
work because it complained that dovecot had no namespace capablity. After
looking through Dovecot's config files I found that namespaces could be
defined, but if you did not a 'private' default one was created.

The problem is that Dovecot doesn't advertise NAMESPACE capability before
client has logged in. The better solution would be to change imapsync to figure
this out automatically. The other solution would be to set in Dovecot:

imap_capability = +NAMESPACE