dovecot - Apr 2013 - not showing subfolders on INBOX

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Hi all,

Apologies if a duplicate message. I initially sent the following from
a non-subscribed email address (my usual address, but not the one that
works when I'm having trouble with mail).

First, I'm pretty sure I screwed up something with dovecot. The
symptom appears in both thunderbird and mutt.

I'm moving my server from a VPS to a dedicated server. *Both* are Arch
Linux systems. Here's the dovecot -n output:

# 2.1.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.8.4-1-ARCH x86_64
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
default_client_limit = 3000
default_process_limit = 1000
login_trusted_networks = 10.8.0.0/16 127.0.0.0/8
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_max_userip_connections = 30
passdb {
  args = failure_show_msg=yes
  driver = pam
}
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    mode = 0666
  }
}
ssl_cert = </home/www/ssl/www.cybernude.org_publickey-apache.pem
ssl_key = </home/www/ssl/www.cybernude.org_privatekey.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}

One detail, the kernel version, is different from what is indicated
above. munich is the new system; atlanta is the old one:

Linux munich.parts-unknown.org 3.8.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 20
22:10:25 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Linux atlanta.parts-unknown.org 3.6.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec
11 09:40:17 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I literally copied this configuration, so it's the same on both
systems. But on the new system, I'm not seeing subfolders in INBOX. I
also copied my Maildir from the old system to the new system, so it
should--I thought, anyway--be okay.

What did I do wrong? And how should I fix it?

Thanks!
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David Benfell wrote:
> First, I'm pretty sure I screwed up something with dovecot. The
> symptom appears in both thunderbird and mutt.
> 
> Linux munich.parts-unknown.org 3.8.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 20
> 22:10:25 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Linux atlanta.parts-unknown.org 3.6.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec
> 11 09:40:17 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I literally copied this configuration, so it's the same on both
> systems. But on the new system, I'm not seeing subfolders in INBOX. I
> also copied my Maildir from the old system to the new system, so it
> should--I thought, anyway--be okay.
> 
> What did I do wrong? And how should I fix it?
Possibly a filesystem permission issue or userid mismatch?

How did you copy the Maildir from the old system to the new system
and has the affected sufficient access to the Maildir?

Can you find any errors in dovecot logfile?

Regards
Daniel
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On 04/04/2013 06:05 PM, Daniel Parthey wrote:


I had just done an scp -r, with a chown.

It turns out all I had to do--I eventually found this after looking
for *hours*--was to "recreate" the folders under Thunderbird. These
are maildirs, so it is apparently important to put a slash at the end
of the mailbox name when creating it, which is probably why my earlier
attempt doing this failed.

Fortunately, "recreating" the folders does not erase them. But
apparently it clues dovecot into their existence.

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