[Dovecot] Folders within folders?

[Brian Hayden]

On Oct 8 2008, ed beers wrote:

>I'm trying to migrate my emails from an existing server (University of 
>Washington IMAP toolkit) to dovecot.  My clients are all using Thunderbird.
>
>I'm moving to a new Ubuntu based server (old one was Centos4) and 
>selected dovecot solely because it was the default option.  I'm not 
>committed to it if it isn't the right tool for my application.
>
>My existing server allows hierarchical folders and these are used to 
>organize 20 years worth of carefully sorted emails. 
>
>I can create a new folders on the dovecot server but Thunderbird 
>doesn't  allow me to create new sub-folders within them.  I think T-bird 
>is configured OK since this works on the old server.
>
>Is this a dovecot limitation or have I configured it incorrectly?

You have something configured incorrectly. Dovecot allows creating folders 
within folders out of the box (as does any non-idiotic IMAP server). I'd 
double-check the Thunderbird config for your test Dovecot account against 
one that you know will create subfolders on your UW server. They worked 
exactly the same when we tested this functionality during our conversion 
from UW.

-- 
Brian Hayden
UMN OIT Internet Services