Dovecot uses a default setting of /home/$USER/mail without making any changes, so in your Squirrelmail and Thunderbird setup, you need to see if that's the case. In Thunderbird, go to View Settings For This Account and under Server Settings, click on the Advanced button and make sure the IMAP server directory is empty. Click on the 3 checkboxes below that blank space. Personal namespace should just have "" in it and everything else is blank, other than Allow server to override these... is checked. In Squirrelmail, the settings should be done this way: ./configure (in your default Squirrelmail directory) and then choose 3, folder defaults. #1 should be blank for dovecot. Now you need to get to your home directory and see if there's a folder named mail under /home/$USER/mail, and if there is, make sure you move it to /home/$USER/mail. In some instances I've seen a path like this with duplicate folders in it: /home/$USER/mail/mail This happens when the default folder prefix is put to mail when it should be left blank because Dovecot uses it automatically, so if you put mail in the default folder prefix for either Thunderbird or Squirrelmail, you get the duplicate mail folder. I think that's all there is to it. Now go into both and unsubscribe from all folders, then re-subscribe to all folders. If you still have duplicates, something else is going on. HTH (and works), Karl On Mon, January 18, 2010 10:14 pm, Mike DiChiappari wrote: > Been reading about this, but haven't found a solution - just a headache. > > Configuration is: > Ubuntu 8.0.4 > Postfix 2.5.1 > Dovecot 1.0.10 > SquirrelMail 1.4.3 > > Manage folders (IMAP) is working, but with a snafu. I can see and > manage folders on Thunderbird. I can see and mange folders in > SquirrelMail. But SquirrelMail shows them twice. One set of folders > appears indented and clicking on one gives an "invalid mailbox name". > The other set of folders works fine. > > All incoming mail is stored in /var/spool/mail/<user>. All mailboxes > (mbox) are stored in /var/home/mail. > > There is a .subscriptions file. In it, Thunderbird seems to include > lines like this: > > /home/<user>/mail/<foldername> > > There is a duplicate set of lines that SquirrelMail seems to create that > look like: > > <foldername> > > How can I fix this to remove the duplicates? > > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for > Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues > through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established > companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > ----- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > --- Karl Pearson Karlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Owner/Administrator of the sites at http://ourldsfamily.com --- "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." --- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. --Benjamin Franklin --- Prayer for Obama, et al: http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ps/109/8#8 (~) --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
