[imp] IMP, Dovecot and multiple namespaces

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com>:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm wondering what the best way is to be backwards compatible with  
> Courier mailbox formats and not duplicate mailbox trees with  
> Dovecot.  Is anyone doing this right now?
>
> My Dovecot 2.0.13 is configured as follows for Namespaces:
>
> namespace {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   prefix =
>   separator = .
> }
> namespace {
>   hidden = yes
>   inbox = no
>   list = no
>   location =
>   prefix = INBOX.
>   separator = .
> }
>
> So I should have an INBOX, plus additional root folders - rather  
> than the Courier default of all folders being subfolders of the INBOX.
>
> So when I run LIST in IMAP I get -
> 08 LIST "" %
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Spam"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Junk"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts"
>
> Which looks fine.
>
> The problem is, IMP (old and new) show two sets of mailboxes (one  
> for each namespace) like so:
>
> INBOX
> Spam
> Spam.Over10
> Sent
> INBOX.Spam
> INBOX.Spam.Over10
> INBOX.Sent
> (etc)
>
> I assume IMP is walking the INBOX because it says it has Children,  
> and displaying those Children.

Then this is a bug (or a misconfiguration) in Dovecot.  Dovecot is  
reporting INBOX has children - IMP is doing the proper thing by  
looking for the children.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]