i have the same problem: on the Mailserver (debian stable, dovecot as debian package):
# ls -ald .2.3 drwx------ 5 dovenull mail 4096 Mar 17 20:09 .2.3 where 3 is a subfolder of 2 locally: ls -ald 2/.1 drwx------ 5 varac varac 4096 Mar 17 20:09 2/.1 --- .mbsync/Mail » mbsync -V -l [email protected] 1 ↵ * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. >>> 1 LOGIN <user> <pass> 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE] Logged in >>> 2 NAMESPACE * NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL 2 OK Namespace completed. >>> 3 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Templates" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Trash) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Drafts) "." "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Sent) "." "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "2.3" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "2.1" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Archives" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" 3 OK List completed. INBOX Archives 2/1 2/3 Sent Drafts Trash Templates >>> 4 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 4 OK Logout completed. IMAPAccount [email protected] Host mail.b.cd User [email protected] Pass xxxxxxxxx AuthMech LOGIN SSLType IMAPS CertificateFile ~/.mbsync/certs/mail.b.cd.crt IMAPStore [email protected] Account [email protected] UseNamespace yes #PathDelimiter . MaildirStore [email protected] Path ~/.mbsync/Mail/a@b/ Inbox ~/.mbsync/Mail/a@b/Inbox #Flatten . AltMap yes Channel [email protected] Master :[email protected]: Slave :[email protected]: Patterns * Create Both SyncState /home/varac/.mbsync/SyncState/[email protected]/ Expunge Both Remove Both > the dots in the maildir subfolders are part of the deal and have > *nothing* to do with the server configuration. it would be awesome if you could help us here, i already tried a few options from the mbsync manpage without success. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

