Hello.
I need some help. I was running uw-imap on my IMAP server (so I am
using mbox email files), but I was having trouble with Outlook 2013, so I
decided to move to dovecot. At first things were looking much better, except
that most of my folders, other than the Inbox, were not showing up. I started
changing both the dovecot configuration and the folder structure of my mail
files, but now I can't even get the Inbox to populate. Outlooks says it is
there, along with any folders I create new in Outlook, plus the Trash folder,
which is the only non-local folder with anything in it. Try what I might, I
can't get my Inbox to populate or any of the existing folders to show up at
all. Here is the current output from dovecot -n:
# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.1 xfs
mail_location = mbox:/RAID/home/%u/mail
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix }
passdb {
driver = pam
}
protocols = " imap pop3"
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
I have the mail files on a RAID array (separate from the boot arrays) at
/RAID/home/<User>/mail. Here is a snapshot of one of t he directories:
drwx------ 2 lrhorer lrhorer 59 Sep 26 21:32 Amazon
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 118889 Jul 23 09:57 CPS Energy
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 58343 Dec 26 2011 Craigs List
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 105676 Aug 24 2011 DAR Support
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 351546 Sep 20 11:21 Drafts
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 5767297 Jun 24 2012 eBay
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 50503746 Nov 27 2012 Family
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 109653 Apr 14 2012 Helipal
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 144094265 Sep 27 22:50 inbox
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 549 Jun 16 11:05 Junk E-mail
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 499 Jul 27 09:09 Junk E-mail1
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 499 Aug 18 13:27 Junk E-mail2
-rw-r--r-- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 0 Sep 27 22:41 Junk E-mail3
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 144094265 Sep 26 21:30 lrhorer
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 178218 Jan 11 2013 Mdadm
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 1022804 Dec 21 2011 NewEgg
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 6102422 Sep 17 2012 NUT
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 1588992 May 28 2010 RAID Halting
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 139695 Dec 13 2009 Rebuild an Array
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 3657762 Jul 26 10:24 Save
-rw------- 1 root root 3657762 Sep 27 22:48 Save.sav
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 44458963 Jun 21 2011 Sent Items
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 10349 Jan 3 2010 SMART
-rw-rw-rw- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 238 Sep 27 22:46 subscriptions
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 2732568 Jun 5 2011 tempAmazon
-rw-r--r-- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 0 Sep 27 22:11 testing
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 19152044 Sep 27 22:42 Trash
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 536 Sep 5 01:14 Unsent
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 58550 Apr 8 2012 Wine
-rw------- 1 lrhorer lrhorer 105015 Apr 2 2012 Xheli
Since the home directories are on a subdirectory of a separate array, I
have the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 27 21:22 /home -> /RAID/home
/var/mail:
total 140724
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 30 Sep 27 21:31 ljrhorer ->
/RAID/home/ljrhorer/mail/inbox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 29 Sep 27 21:31 lrhorer ->
/RAID/home/lrhorer/mail/inbox
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