[horde] Fresh Install - not finding maildir mail

Mike barjunk at attglobal.net
Wed Jul 1 15:51:38 UTC 2026


Everyone, thanks for the help.

I knew I was being stupid about something....

In the old system, I had the mail sorted by date most recent messages  
at the top.

The default is to put unread messages first, or something similar.

Sorry for the noise.


Quoting Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com>:

> If you connect to your server using a mail client over imap, do you  
> see your new mail?
>
> You can flush the dovecot caches...just go into your Maildir, then  
> into the '.imap" folder and remove everything in there. Restart  
> dovecot and see if it populates.
>
> Imp just uses your dovecot setup, so nothing SHOULD be in play.
>
> brent
>
> Quoting Mike <barjunk at attglobal.net>:
>
>> My original setup doesn't have a backends.php for imp.
>>
>> Additionally, I tried it in the new setup with and without backends.php.
>>
>> Same result.
>>
>> I'm working to identify what the problem is by turning on rawlogs  
>> for Dovecot.
>>
>> The server is still delivering new messages to the Maildir, so that  
>> hasn't changed either.
>>
>> I'm guessing there is a prefix issue or some other bad assumption  
>> I've made about how things work.
>>
>> Thanks for taking a look.
>>
>> Quoting Jean Charles Delépine <delepine at u-picardie.fr>:
>>
>>> Quoting Mike <barjunk at attglobal.net>:
>>>
>>>> Back in April, I migrated from mbox to maildir format.
>>>
>>> IMP shouldn't care of that, since you're using IMAP.
>>>
>>>> Up until this fresh install, imp had been retrieving my mail from  
>>>> my Maildir, as expected.
>>>>
>>>> However, since the install, it only sees the old mail.
>>>
>>> Can you share with us your backend configuration, for both version  
>>> of imp, if they differ?
>>>
>>>> What have I missed that needs attention?
>>>>
>>>> I've gone to the test page and it sees the imap server without issue.
>>>
>>> Promising news.
>>>
>>>             Jean Charles
>>>
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