> Hi Gregg, > > > I have a client who has been trying to do subfolders in IMAP. I > > searched around and found some old questions regarding this subject, > > but has anything been done about this more recent? Is there an easier > > way to accomplish this on BlueOnyx and dovecot? > > There are several approaches to this. On a "stock" BlueOnyx and using any > IMAP client (even RoundCube) you can already create subfolders. > Pretty much any client supports this. Just create the folder, subscribe to it (so > that the email client polls this folder, too) and that's all there is. > > > I think from what I read you have to configure dovecot to use > > something other than mbox. Is that easily accomplished on BlueOnyx > > without breaking a whole bunch of other things? > > Yes, that's the other method. As is we're using "mbox" by default. > Means: All emails that arrive at their destination in the users local mailbox > are appended to the file "mbox". Which Dovecot then connects to. > Email clients can still take individual emails and move them into subfolders. > Or a procmail rule can automatically move them into subfolders. Like the AV- > SPAM might do with detected SPAM, which end up in the folder > "caughtspam". > > But you can also switch the storage of emails from the "mbox" to "maildir" > storage. In which case separate folders are created and emails are stored as > individual files. These maildir folders aren't IMAP folders, though. > > Dovecot can handle both mbox and maildir format by just changing a line in > the config file. > > To come full circle: You don't need to switch to maildir format to use IMAP > folders. That works with both mbox and maildir.
I like the idea of not changing from mbox, but when I'm trying to create a subfolder it gives me an error such as: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes So I'm not able to create a subfolder. Is there some configuration I need to change in dovecot to allow for this? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx