On 1.3.2012, at 16.16, Steve Campbell wrote: > I've just converted from an old Centos 3 box to a Centos 6.2 box. I've > switched from UW-imap to dovecot in the process. In my configurations, I've > placed the multiple namespace sections as suggested by the "Backward > compatability" part of the wiki. I use mbox since I mostly copied the home > directories from the old to the new server. > > On some of the clients, it appears that the client is using multiple > namespaces at the same time. When they view their subscribed folders, they > see multiple "mail" folders instead of just the single "mail" folder under > their home directory. > > The .subscription files are more than likely not correct (haven't looked yet, > but will fix them as a user calls), but should this ever happen? I'm also > sure the client's prefix isn't set since the old system never required it and > there are just so many other things that are required right now on this > conversion.
Difficult to say without knowing 1) doveconf -n output and 2) .subscriptions file contents. > Speaking of prefixes, I'd like to get the default of "" (nothing entered) to > work for the majority of the users to avoid having to add this to the > multiple users we have. Hopefully, by going through each user's home > directory and copying the old .mailboxlist to a new .subscriptions file and > ensuring the imap folders are in ~/mail will do this. Does this sound > resonable? Yes, assuming you have: mail_location = mbox:~/mail (with maybe the :INBOX=/var/mail/%u) Also the .subscriptions needs to be in ~/mail/ then.
