Moving an IMAP Folder (Dovecot)
 

I have a user who has a folder in his Maildir/ called "test"

/home/user/Maildir/.test

This folder shows up as a sub folder to his Inbox on his Thunderbird client and I tried using the "cp" command to move this over to my Maildir/ directory on the same server and when I launch Thunderbird, that folder is not visible for me. I made sure permissions are correct and even reloaded Dovecot.

The permissions and ownership seem to be identical to all the folders I created as subfolders myself but for some reason, I can NOT see "test/".

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Using Thunderchicken IMAP create the another folder and then move the contents of .test into it

I guess I could use "Thunderbird" to create the folder and then move the contents into the folder however I don't understand what the difference is and would like to understand why my method did not or is not working?

Thanks!

I had the user create a subfolder with their mail client (Thunderbird) and then moved all the stuff into that folder from the server also making sure they had proper ownership and when they try and open the folder, nothing happens. They can't see any of the folders content...

Ah - resolved. I had to have the user "subscribe" to the new folder in their client.