You are correct, it was a subscription issue (and a permissions one as
well, as I had screwed around with those while trying to figure stuff
out) I managed to figure that out about an hour before you sent your
email :) I eventually found the issue discussed in wiki2.
I don't see where
Charles,
Thanks for much for your tips...I have gotten further!
I did have a userdb section, but I commented it out because it didn't
seem to do anything. I've added it back in, and now home= is filled in
appropriately. Now my mail clients aren't complaining!
However, Thunderbird,
On 8/28/2010 11:08 AM, Blaster wrote:
I've copied in the UW-IMAP namespace section from the WIKI.
snip
namespace {
inbox = yes
location =
I don't understand namespaces real well, but the wiki examples didn't
have a location = setting at all... so maybe try removing that?
--
Best
Your Thunderbird clients are set to show only subscribed folders. Dovecot by
default is not looking got the same subscriptions file that uw-imap was. So,
thunderbird shows no mailboxes because the (new) subscription file is empty.
This is one of the many reasons why subscriptions are bad,
Blaster wrote:
Wiki seems to think you are running an older version and therefore very
little of it applies.
Are you looking at the wiki for dovecot 1 or 2?
At the very top of the wiki for v1 (http://wiki.dovecot.org), it tells
you about the page for v2 (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/)
--
Best
On 2010-08-26 7:34 PM, Brian Hayden b...@machinehum.com wrote:
Dovecot makes the sort of thing you're talking about very easy if you
familiarize yourself with namespaces first. It can overcome most of
the problems caused by historical poor choices in client
configuration.
On 2010-08-26 11:18 PM, Blaster blas...@556nato.com wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I saw the section on converting from uw-imap, but
it's still not working. I still can not get to my mail folders, other
than INBOX. I think the problem goes back to Dovecot can't determine
the home directory?
So I'm very frustrated, I've spent the better part of a day trying to
get dovecot 2.0.1 working...Most of the documentation on the Wiki seems
to think you are running an older version and therefore very little of
it applies.
I'm running 2.0.1 on OpenSolaris.
I seem to have 2 remaining
Read up on namespace configuration some more.
Dovecot makes the sort of thing you're talking about very easy if you
familiarize yourself with namespaces first. It can overcome most of the
problems caused by historical poor choices in client configuration.
-Brian
On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:09
Thanks for the tip. I saw the section on converting from uw-imap, but
it's still not working. I still can not get to my mail folders, other
than INBOX. I think the problem goes back to Dovecot can't determine
the home directory?
ug 26 22:08:36 gremlin dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.debug]
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