We've got some users who are using Outlook Express version 6. The client
allows me to specify the root folder, but not a prefix or namespace. I'm
still struggling with some users on our new server that have crazy imap
folder layouts, so I've got a few questions.
When I specify the root folder, does that bypass any namespace/prefix
definitions on the imap server?
On some clients, like Thunderbird, I have the option of specifying
namespace OR prefix. How do these differ? I thought that the prefix was
the "name" of the namespace.
It appears that I have to delete and re-create the account on these OE 6
clients to make the list of folders show properly. Does that sound right?
This all came about because one of these OE 6 users was not able to use
their imap folders (server errors). Turns out it was one of the users
that had their folders directly under ~. So I moved them to ~/mail,
created a .subscriptions file from their .mailboxlist file and tried
everything in the world to get the folders to list properly. Only after
specifying the root folder as ~/mail after recreating the account and
restarting OE did it show properly and the folders remained listed. My
default config has this setup as the "mail_location" parm, but blanks as
the root folder don't seem to work in this situation. I'm also wondering
where I specify the "list", "hidden" and other parms that are usually
set in namespace blocks.
dovecot -n
# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
disable_plaintext_auth = no
listen = *
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
namespace {
hidden = yes
inbox = yes
list = yes
location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
prefix =
separator = /
type = private
}
namespace {
hidden = yes
list = no
location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
prefix = "#mbox/"
separator = /
type = private
}
namespace {
hidden = yes
list = no
location =
prefix = mail/
separator = /
type = private
}
namespace {
hidden = yes
list = yes
location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
prefix = ~/mail/
separator = /
type = private
}
namespace {
hidden = yes
list = no
location =
prefix = ~%u/mail/
separator = /
type = private
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
protocols = pop3 imap
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
protocol pop3 {
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
Thanks
steve campbell
Thanks
steve campbell
