[Dovecot] Maildir from offlineimap, INBOX folder created

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 24 08:47:31 EEST 2009


On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:35 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 01:25 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, it all works spiffingly well, except that I can't see my  
>>> inbox
>>> at all. What happens is that attempting to subscribe to Inbox will
>>> create an INBOX folder in the root folder, which is (of course)  
>>> empty,
>>> so I see an empty folder.
>>>
>>> mail_location: maildir:/home/data/Profiles/OfflineIMAP/ 
>>> root:LAYOUT=fs
>>
>> Append :INBOX=/home/data/Profiles/OfflineIMAP/root
>>
>
> Hey, thanks, worked perfectly. I just rechecked the wiki, and this is
> not mentioned at all, should it be added? The only part of
> MalboxFormat/Maildir dealing with this, under Directory Structure,  
> only
> mentions that v1.1 supports subfolders with :LAYOUT=fs.

Well, this wasn't really intentional.. LAYOUT=fs hasn't really been  
used much. I'm beginning to think maybe I should change this to be the  
default with it too.



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