[Dovecot] Problem with virtual mailboxes (was Sylpheed-claws and virtual mailboxes)

[Thomas Berker]

Turns out that both mulberry (linux+win xp) and kmail (1.11.2) do fail
to recognize the virtual mailbox too.
 thomas

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00 +0200, "Thomas Berker" <berker at eml.cc> wrote:
> Hi!
> Has someone encountered the following problem? What am I doing wrong or
> does someone know a workaround?
> 
> Dovecot 1.2.1 on Debian unstable, two namespaces:
> 
> namespace private {
>    prefix =
>    location = maildir:~/res/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>    inbox = yes
>    list = yes
> }
> 
> namespace private {
>    prefix = gtd/
>    separator = /
>    list = yes
>    location = virtual:~/res/Maildir/gtd:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/res/Maildir/gtd
> }
> 
> The problem:
> cur, tmp, new maildir folders get created within the folder gtd when it
> is opened by Sylpheed-claws (3.7.1). Subfolders in gtd holding the
> dovecot-virtual files are not recognised as mail folders at all, they
> show up but do nothing.
> 
> Other clients (I have tested thunderbird, evolution) work as expected:
> they show the folder gtd and the sub-folders perform searches.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> tb
> 
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