dovecot - Feb 2022 - How to "activate" a mail directory?

Hello,

as I need a mailbox locally only just for filtering, I've tried to
manually create it (using Maildir as backend):

1. Created a folder in the appropriate location under /home/vmail with
subfolders cur, new, tmp.
2. Set the same user:group as for the other folders (i.e. vmail:vmail).
3. Restarted Dovecot and Email-Client (Thunderbird).

However, I cannot subscribe to the new folder. What am I missing here?

Kind regards,
Peter

> On 05/02/2022 12:08 Peter Nabbefeld <peter.nabbefeld at gmx.de>
wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello,
> 
> as I need a mailbox locally only just for filtering, I've tried to
> manually create it (using Maildir as backend):
> 
> 1. Created a folder in the appropriate location under /home/vmail with
> subfolders cur, new, tmp.
> 2. Set the same user:group as for the other folders (i.e. vmail:vmail).
> 3. Restarted Dovecot and Email-Client (Thunderbird).
> 
> However, I cannot subscribe to the new folder. What am I missing here?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Peter
You sure you put it in right place?

You can check the path with

doveadm mailbox path -u username MailboxName

it does not have to exist to check the path.

Aki