[Dovecot] Migrating from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot

Tomas Kuliavas tokul at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Dec 26 17:29:32 EET 2005


> Hi!
>
>
> I'm currently trying to migrate from courier-imapd to dovecot...
> Unfortunately I'm experiences some difficulties here...
> Since I don't want any user to notice the change of the server backend
> I've tried changing the namespace in dovecot.conf to
>
>
> namespace private {
>  separator = .
>  location = maildir:~/Maildir
>  prefix = INBOX.
>  inbox = yes
>  hidden = no
> }
>
>
> With this setting almost everything works fine! Almost... ;-)
> Squirrelmail won't show 'INBOX' on the left side of the folder tree...
> If  I configure dovecot without the 'INBOX.' prefix it works fine in
> Squirrelmail, except that all other eMail clients show all sub-folders
> as a sub-folder of root and not the inbox...
>
> root \- inbox
> \- sent
> \- trash
> \- drafts
> \- private
> \- spam
>
>
> instead of
> root
> \- inbox
> |  \- sent
> |  \- trash
> |  \- drafts
> |  \- private
> |  \- spam
>
>
> any Idea what could be wrong? I've read the wiki about the
> courier-migration and also tried the conversion script ... but something
> is wrong I'm afraid...

You have contacted wrong list. Display of inbox subfolders depends on used
SquirrelMail version and other SquirrelMail settings. You haven't provided
information about your SquirrelMail version and used preset.


-- 
Tomas


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