[Dovecot] Dovecot and Mail.app

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Dec 26, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> I suppose I can live with the Mail.app behavior sans the prefix  
> setting in the namespace section, but it's not ideal.  I'd really  
> like to know why Mail.app has a problem with this!  Why are the  
> folders there but the contents empty?  Is there any way to increase  
> the logging that Dovecot does to understand what the Mail.app  
> client is sending and why Dovecot is sending back that error?

I did a little packet snooping and I think I might have discovered  
what's going on.  Apparently, Mail.app uses mailbox names like INBOX/ 
Foo and INBOX/Bar while Thunderbird uses mailbox names like INBOX.Foo  
and INBOX.Bar.  IOW, adding these two namespace sections seems to  
support both clients:

# For Mail.app
namespace private {
    separator = /
    prefix = INBOX/
    inbox = yes
}
# For Thunderbird
namespace private {
    separator = .
    prefix = INBOX.
    inbox = yes
}

I need to play with this some more to be sure.  Can anybody  
corroborate this?  If true, the information should probably be added  
to the Dovecot wiki.

- -Barry

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