Okay, I've been using IMAP for a while and I love it for all the obvious reasons. This evening, however, I really got serious about setting everything up exactly right. I ran into some baffling problems, and I hope you guys can shed some light on them.
My main goal was to make my Thunderbird IMAP setup seamless with Squirrelmail. Squirrelmail requires that I keep my IMAP folders in ~/mail. I had been putting my folders in ~, since that was how Thunderbird came setup by default. I moved all of my folders to ~/mail so that, for instance, my friends folder is at ~/mail/friends. Squirrelmail is now happy: everything is perfect when viewed in Squirrelmail. Thunderbird is no longer happy. I can subscribe to the folders and see everything fine, but they're displayed very unattractively as a subfolder of ~! In the folder list in Thunderbird I have to expand explicitly through ~/mail. Three layers deep!
I do a little research, and I come up with the namespace options in (Account Settings > Server Settings > Advanced...). Ahha, this is perfect! If I just set my namespace to ~/mail/ I should be golden. That sure seems intuitive. But no, I still get my folders as subfolders of ~ and mail. I did uncheck "Allow server to override" -- otherwise it just resets it to "~".
The best I've been able to do so far is to set the namespaces to "mail/". This make all of my folders subfolders of mail. I'd really love to not see them as subfolders at all. It really seems like that should be the case when I tell it the mail/ is the namespace!
Any ideas? I'm going insane here!
Thanks,
-- gilrain
IMAP Namespace Craziness?
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See http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/FAQ.html#namespace
I got the impression Squirrelmail used Courier-IMAP.
I got the impression Squirrelmail used Courier-IMAP.
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