[Dovecot] Help on dovecot, imap, maildir and subfolders

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 6 01:54:12 EEST 2005


On 26.5.2005, at 20:37, Lanhai Li wrote:

> I have Fedora Core 2 and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0. I've
> done nothing to configure it but it seems to have
> found the Mail dir in my home directory ok and I can
> connect using IMAP. But I can't create subfolders.
>
> If I right click on inbox, there's a 'New Folder...',
> but if I create one then right click on it, no more
> 'New Folder...'. So it seems folders can only go one
> level deep.

You'll have to create the subfolders as "new/subfolder". Then it 
creates "new" as a directory instead of as a mailbox.
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