Peter Peltonen wrote:
If I understood the question, he wants his imap clients to be able to create folders at the same level as the inbox, not under it.
Yes, that was my question.
Which is probably a server-side storage or namespace option.
What I have on my Dovecot server config is:
namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private }
OP has probably "prefix = INBOX." which forces all client apps to create subfolders underneath/within the inbox instead of adjacent to it.
Thanks very much for your response. It seems to me very likely that the problem does lie here.
However, I am running CentOS-6.2, and now /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf does not seem to contain any reference to namespace, as it did in CentOS-5.
There is now a directory /etc/dovecot/conf.d , and the only mentions of namespace are in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf .
The section on namespaces is commented out by default, and I have left it like this. I must admit I do not understand the relevant section. If I remove the commented advice, it reads: ------------------------------------ #namespace { #type = private #separator = #prefix = #location = #inbox = no #hidden = no #list = yes #subscriptions = yes #} ------------------------------------ Following your advice, I've changed this to ------------------------------------ namespace { type = private separator = prefix = location = inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes subscriptions = yes } ------------------------------------ and run "sudo service dovecot restart" on my server.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have had any effect; KMail is still unable to add a top-level folder.