On 22.4.2005, at 22:20, Marten Lehmann wrote:

today I accidentally created a subfolder "Trash" instead of INBOX.Trash. No error was given, the creation lead to the folder ".Trash". If I know this folder, I can also select it. But a "list * * " doesn't show the Trash folder. How could I ever find this folder by the imap-procotol if I don't know it's name? Is this the correct behaviour? Or shouldn't imap simply disallow the creation of such folders, but only with preceding "INBOX."?

Most likely you've set your IMAP client's "namespace prefix" to "INBOX.". Dovecot doesn't need it anymore, removing it should help (and show all your mailboxes under INBOX mailbox..).

"LIST * *" shouldn't show anything because there's no "*" mailbox, but:

x LIST "" *

should have shown it.