[Dovecot] subscription to mail folders not working properly anymore with dovecot1.0x ?

[Alain Hofer]

Hi

we run dovecot on sun solaris 9. I try to switch from dovecot 0.99.11
to dovecot 1.0, with ssl support turned on.
The user's mail are stored in mbox format in Mail in their home dirs.
I was not able to get the subscrition working properly with the new
dovecot. New means: 1.0beta2 and now also 1.0.RC1 (beta9)

The client mailreaders are mainly thunderbird 1.0x and 1.5.x, Netscape
Messenger, and  SquirrelMail for web access.

The mail folder subscriptions stored in <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions
works fine with the dovecot 0.99.11.

With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as
the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing
to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the
file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears.

Did I miss any point in the configuration? Or does someone else encounter
the same problem?

Thx for any help!

-- Alain Hofer
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