I Don't See My Sub-folders in Dovecot (IMAP4)

carlosinfl · 11-29-2010, 07:13 PM

I noticed today that on the mail server, I can see my sub-folders:

Code:

[carlos@mail ~]$ cd mail
[carlos@mail mail]$ ls -la
total 1248
drwx------ 13 carlos users   4096 Nov 29 20:02 .
drwx------  3 carlos users   4096 Nov 11 16:18 ..
drwx------  5 carlos users   4096 Nov 18 11:11 .Amazon
drwx------  2 carlos users 110592 Nov 29 20:02 cur
-rw-------  1 carlos users  38704 Nov 29 15:03 dovecot.index
-rw-------  1 carlos users 964608 Nov 29 20:02 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------  1 carlos users   9536 Nov 29 20:02 dovecot.index.log
-rw-------  1 carlos users     59 Nov 16 12:43 dovecot-keywords
-rw-------  1 carlos users    264 Nov 29 15:54 dovecot.mailbox.log
-rw-------  1 carlos users  77052 Nov 29 19:24 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-------  1 carlos users      8 Nov 28 18:11 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r--  1 carlos users      0 Nov 11 15:55 dovecot-uidvalidity.4cdc5846
drwx------  5 carlos users   4096 Nov 29 19:24 .Drafts
drwx------  5 carlos users   4096 Nov 18 11:11 .Massmusic
drwx------  2 carlos users   4096 Nov 29 19:24 new
drwx------  5 carlos users   4096 Nov 18 11:11 .Newegg
drwx------  5 carlos users   4096 Nov 29 19:25 .Sent
-rw-------  1 carlos users     27 Nov 29 15:54 subscriptions
drwx------  2 carlos users   4096 Nov 29 18:47 tmp
drwx------  5 carlos users   4096 Nov 29 20:02 .Trash

However now when I open up my mail client (Thunderbird) which is configured for IMAP4, I don't see the folders in red listed above. Does anyone know what is causing this or what I need to do so Dovecot can access my folders? I have a suspicion it's the 'subscriptions' text file listed above. Anyone know what is going on?

tsg · 11-30-2010, 12:37 PM

In Thunderbird, right-click on the account and click "subscribe". It should give you a menu of folders and the option of checking the ones you want to appear in your tree.