Never mind. I found: http://www.dovecot.org/doc/NEWS
<snip> v1.0.rc29 2007-03-28 Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip> IMAP: LIST "" "" didn't return anything if there didn't exist a namespace with empty prefix. This broke some clients <snip> I upgraded using backport binaries 1.0.10-1~bpo40+1 and it works with Mac OS X mail clients now. Regards, David On Tuesday 04 March 2008 14:37, David Koski wrote: > After installing a new server with postfix/dovecot I found that the Mac OS > X mail client does not see email in subfolders. It seemed to be related to > the namespace. From dovecot.conf: > > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = INBOX. > inbox = yes > hidden = no > } > > After googling I found that I might need to add a default namespace with an > empty prefix so I added this: > > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = > inbox = yes > hidden = no > } > > Then I was able to access mail in subfolders using the Mac mail client. > However, using Kmail I can see both namespaces, where all the folders are > listed under the inbox at the same level, and where all folders are listed > one level below the inbox. I don't really want to keep my "INBOX." prefix > so existing accounts remain unchanged. How do I solve this? > > The current dovecot.conf is below. > > Regards, > David Koski > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login > first_valid_uid: 104 > last_valid_uid: 104 > mail_extra_groups: mail > mail_location: /var/vmail > maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes > mail_plugins: quota imap_quota > imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail > namespace: > type: private > separator: . > prefix: INBOX. > inbox: yes > auth default: > mechanisms: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 APOP NTLM > user: nobody > passdb: > driver: pam > passdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > userdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > userdb: > driver: prefetch > socket: > type: listen > client: > path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth > mode: 432 > user: postfix > group: mail > master: > path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > mode: 432 > user: vmail > group: mail