A. J. Giurato wrote:
I'm trying to use a script to create a mailbox structure. I'm aware
that the structure should look like:
~/.maildir/.INBOX/{cur,tmp,new}
~/.maildir/.INBOX.Subfolder1/{cur,tmp,new}
~/.maildir/.INBOX.Subfolder2/{cur,tmp,new}
~/.maildir/.INBOX.Subfolder2.Subsubfolder1/{cur,tmp,new}
...
I have tried manually making those directories and using the
"maildirmake.dovecot" command that my system has. I feel that in the
past, folders I have made this way worked. However, now none are
showing up in my clients.
In Thunderbird, they aren't even listed on the "Subscribe" window for
me to enable. Using Squirrelmail doesn't show them either.
Essentially what I am doing is taking my current IMAP dir structure,
and making a copy in a subfolder called ".INBOX.Archive.<year>" to
archive my old mail. Thus, .INBOX.Subfolder1.Subfolder2 becomes
.INBOX.Archive.2009.Subfolder1.Subfolder2.
My system:
Ubuntu 8.04
# 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
ssl_listen: *
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_access_groups: mail
default_mail_env: ~/.maildir
mail_location: ~/.maildir
I am not a Dovecot expert, but I would wonder if it makes a difference
if "mail_location" has not specified the mailbox type, e.g.
mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir
Also worth noting that the de-facto standard location for Maildirs is
"~/Maildir", which would be indicated with
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
Bill
