[Dovecot] INBOX protected foldername?

Axel Luttgens
Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:03:24 -0000

Le 18 juil. 2013 ? 13:58, Hajo Locke a ?crit :

> Hello,
>
> [...]
> In higher dovecot versions INBOX seems to be a kind of protected
foldername. dovecot is not offering this folder in folderlist. If i rename it,
the folder is available again.
> [...]
>
> Is there an explaination for this behaviour?

Hello Hajo,

From RFC 3501:

	The case-insensitive mailbox name INBOX is a special name reserved to
	mean "the primary mailbox for this user on this server".  The
	interpretation of all other names is implementation-dependent.

IIRC, several changes have been brought to Dovecot's code wrt the handling
of that "inbox" name.

HTH,
Axel