dovecot - Apr 2013 - How to see folders/subfolders/emails through imap

Hello all,

I am trying to do something very simple - at least thats what I thought.
I have some fs, it contains folders and subfolders with email files ordered
like maildir. Now I try to set up dovecot on top simply to let some imap
account watch these email files. But I cannot see any folders at all. I can
create new folders and see them, but I cannot create subfolders as subdirs
like "folder/subfolder". Instead I get "folder.subfolder"
dirs on the fs.
I tried to set the separator to "/", but that does not help at all.

Is there some easy way to configure dovecot to display:

<somedir>/<folder1>/<subfolder1>/new/files...
                    <subfolder2>/new/files...
                    <subfolder3>/new/files...

according to fs layout on some imap-client (like thunderbird)?

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Regards,
Stephan

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> I am trying to do something very simple - at least thats what I thought.
> I have some fs, it contains folders and subfolders with email files ordered
> like maildir. Now I try to set up dovecot on top simply to let some imap
> account watch these email files. But I cannot see any folders at all. I can
> create new folders and see them, but I cannot create subfolders as subdirs
> like "folder/subfolder". Instead I get
"folder.subfolder" dirs on the fs.
> I tried to set the separator to "/", but that does not help at
all.
>
> Is there some easy way to configure dovecot to display:
>
> <somedir>/<folder1>/<subfolder1>/new/files...
>                    <subfolder2>/new/files...
>                    <subfolder3>/new/files...
>
> according to fs layout on some imap-client (like thunderbird)?
Well, first, simply explain what you mean with "email files".

a) you mentioned "maildir", so simply look at 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir "Directory layout"
this would also fit your example, IMHO.

b) you mentioned "thunderbird", which does not use maildir to my 
knowledge, but mbox, so simply look at 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox

You might want to place control files somewhere else, see CONTROL= and 
INDEX=.

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Steffen Kaiser
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Am 09.04.2013 16:50, schrieb Steffen Kaiser:
> b) you mentioned "thunderbird", which does not use maildir to my
> knowledge
http://jaisejames.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/to-activate-maildir-in-thunderbird/

Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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On 8.4.2013, at 18.51, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to do something very simple - at least thats what I thought.
> I have some fs, it contains folders and subfolders with email files ordered
> like maildir. Now I try to set up dovecot on top simply to let some imap
> account watch these email files. But I cannot see any folders at all. I can
> create new folders and see them, but I cannot create subfolders as subdirs
> like "folder/subfolder". Instead I get
"folder.subfolder" dirs on the fs.
> I tried to set the separator to "/", but that does not help at
all.
You mentioned you set LAYOUT=fs, but the above sounds like you're still
using Maildir++. Set mail_debug=yes and see what it says.

On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:19:25 +0200
Steffen <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:50:40 +0200 (CEST) Steffen Kaiser
> > <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
> 
> > I tried to tell dovecot that <spooldir> is 
> > mail_location=maildir:<spooldir>:LAYOUT=fs
> 
> Works for me, Dovecot v2.2RC3
> 
> mail_location = maildir:/home/fs:LAYOUT=fs
> mkdir -p /home/fs/foo/{tmp,cur,new}
> mkdir -p /home/fs/foo/bar/{tmp,cur,new}
> 
> telnet localhost 143
> 0 login nnn nnn
> 1 list "" "*"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" foo
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" foo/bar
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX
> 1 OK List completed.
Ok, I solved it thanks to your striking example. The problem was: the clients
remembered something from earlier sessions where the dovecot config was
probably not correct. I removed the mailbox from the client and recreated it
and now I see the correct list of folders. Thanks a lot for this hint.

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Regards,
Stephan

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 22:07:01 +0200
Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:19:25 +0200
> Steffen <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> > Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:50:40 +0200 (CEST) Steffen Kaiser
> > > <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried to tell dovecot that <spooldir> is 
> > > mail_location=maildir:<spooldir>:LAYOUT=fs
> > 
> > Works for me, Dovecot v2.2RC3
> > 
> > mail_location = maildir:/home/fs:LAYOUT=fs
> > mkdir -p /home/fs/foo/{tmp,cur,new}
> > mkdir -p /home/fs/foo/bar/{tmp,cur,new}
> > 
> > telnet localhost 143
> > 0 login nnn nnn
> > 1 list "" "*"
> > * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" foo
> > * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" foo/bar
> > * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX
> > 1 OK List completed.
> 
> Ok, I solved it thanks to your striking example. The problem was: the
clients
> remembered something from earlier sessions where the dovecot config was
> probably not correct. I removed the mailbox from the client and recreated
it
> and now I see the correct list of folders. Thanks a lot for this hint.
Sorry, it seems not that easy.
I had to find out that sylpheed works correctly now, but thunderbird does not
show anything, just like before.
Is there a way to log all imap commands and replies?

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Regards,
Stephan