On Mon, March 23, 2009 10:45 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>
>
>
> Alan in Toronto-2 wrote:
>>
>> I have just migrated to a new server. Previously I was using SquirrelMail
>> with
>> Courier IMAP, but the new server has Dovecot. Initially my SquirrelMail
>> config was
>> simply copied to the new server, and everything seemed to work fine. I
>> want to
>> revise the config to make it as compatible with Dovecot as possible. I've
>> read on
>> the SM site and through list archives and Googled, but I see lots of
>> conflicting
>> advice on how to config for Dovecot.
>>
>> My SM config used on Courier included these settings:
>>
>> IMAP Server Type: Courier
>> IMAP Folder Delimiter: .
>> Default Folder Prefix: INBOX.
>>
>> As I say, that seemed to work even on Dovecot. Based on info. on SM site
>> and others,
>> I changed to the following:
>>
>> IMAP Server Type: Dovecot
>> IMAP Folder Delimiter: detect
>> Default Folder Prefix: "" (blank/empty)
>>
>> However, once I did that I saw the following error:
>>
>> ERROR: Could not complete request.
>> Query: CREATE "Trash"
>> Reason Given: Unknown namespace.
>>
>> So, I left Server Type as Dovecot, but reverted the other two values to
>> what I had
>> on Courier server, so now I have this:
>>
>> IMAP Server Type: Dovecot
>> IMAP Folder Delimiter: .
>> Default Folder Prefix: INBOX.
>>
>> Again, as with the original Courier config, this seems to work. But, is
>> this optimal
>> or correct? Could someone in the know please give me some info. about the
>> proper
>> config values for a Dovecot server?
>>
>
> Dovecot preset is written for standard Dovecot 0.99 namespace. Dovecot 1.x
> allows to reconfigure used namespace and SquirrelMail dovecot preset might
> be unsuitable for your setup.
>
> Enable SquirrelMail info plugin and execute "NAMESPACE" command without
> double quotes. Show results.
Thanks Tomas. Here are the results:
TEST_0
Request:
A003 SELECT INBOX
Response:
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
* 18 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 13] First unseen.
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1208231847] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 2492] Predicted next UID
[READ-WRITE] Select completed.
TEST_9
Request:
A004 NAMESPACE
Response:
* NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) NIL NIL
Namespace completed.
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