[Dovecot] Can't see existing mail folders

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:13 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system
> recently and it basically works as expected.  However I can't get it
> to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies.
> 
> I have the following in dovecot.conf:-
>     default_mail_env =  mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Looks ok.

> IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the
> mail in $HOME/Mail.  There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or
> so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and
> folders that it's created itself?

You didn't have IMAP server installed before Dovecot? Either client has
specified a wrong IMAP namespace, or it's simply just that it's showing
only subscribed mailboxes and you've not subscribed to any.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MissingMailboxes may help some more.


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