From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 22 17:30:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502D016A404 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:30:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CB013C455 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075E3EBC6D; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:30:42 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: David Banning Message-Id: <20070322133042.853f93c6.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20070322145226.GA72613@skytracker.ca> References: <20070322064044.GA7157@skytracker.ca> <20070322081339.255827bf.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070322145226.GA72613@skytracker.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help on picking an IMAP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:30:44 -0000 In response to David Banning : > > You must have been doing something wrong. I have Dovecot in multiple > > places and never had any trouble creating folders/subfolders. > > > > I use Maildir format for my mail store, for multiple reasons that you > > can research via Google if you're curious. Perhaps the Maildir support > > is better than mbox. If that's the case, you may want to consider > > switching to Maildir -- there is at least one mbox -> Maildir conversion > > utility out there. > > Hi Bill. > > I have Googled away and found lots of people who complain that they can't > creat subfolders under dovecot. I havn't seen anyone's problem resolved > in the theads. I have converted mbox to Maildir. I attempt to create > a subfolder from within Outlook - no go. How are you creating > the subfolders? Personally, I use Sylpheed, and it just works fine without having to do anything special. I can verify that it works fine with Thunderbird, Outlook Express, and SquirrelMail -- from first-hand experience. I just talked to an associate who was having trouble creating folders on a Dovecot server using Outlook. He was also having a bunch of other problems with Outlook, so he switched to Outlook Express instead of trying to mess with the Dovecot server. I suppose it's possible that there's some compatibility problem between Outlook and Dovecot, but I can't say for sure. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com