ed beers wrote:
I'm trying to migrate my emails from an existing server (University of
Washington IMAP toolkit) to dovecot. My clients are all using Thunderbird.
I'm moving to a new Ubuntu based server (old one was Centos4) and
selected dovecot solely because it was the default option. I'm not
committed to it if it isn't the right tool for my application.
I very much doubt Dovecot is not the right tool for the job, if IMAP is what
you're after :)
My existing server allows hierarchical folders and these are used to
organize 20 years worth of carefully sorted emails.
I can create a new folders on the dovecot server but Thunderbird
doesn't allow me to create new sub-folders within them. I think T-bird
is configured OK since this works on the old server.
Is this a dovecot limitation or have I configured it incorrectly?
This is a mail store limitation, somewhat.
If you've opted for mbox, things can be tricky. I've found for one server I
use I have to create folders with a trailing / in order to be able to create
sub-folders in them. However, they then can not contain messages as well.
Maildir does not suffer this limitation, as it doesn't use a hierarchy of
filesystem directories to denote mail folders. Each folder is its own
directory.
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Curtis Maloney
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