[Dovecot] Subscription File

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Mon Sep 26 15:45:44 EEST 2011


* Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com>:
> I had a use lose 20 folders on their mail account. I was able to pull
> them back from a restore and dumped them all back on the server in her
> Maildir. The problem is she doesn't see them on her Thunderbird or
> Outlook client. I checked to make sure I put them back into the
> correct directory and I did as well as verify permissions aren't
> weird. I then noticed a file called 'subscriptions' in her Maildir
> directory. She appears to only be seeing folders that are listed in
> this 'subscriptions' file. My question is how do I update this file?
> If I delete it, will Dovecot re-generate the file with the correct
> subscription entries? I don't understand what to do but I'm hoping I
> don't have to edit the file by hand...that seems way too cumbersome.

The client handles the subscriptions (and dovecot does in turn update
the file)

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Ralf Hildebrandt
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