Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:50:58PM -0400, Fred wrote:
> 
> What is it that KMail is doing that the other clients are not? KMail has no 
> problem creating subdirs though IMAP. So -- presumably -- there must be 
> something in the IMAP protocol that allows KMail to deal with the mbox 
> limitations.

BTW, what dovecot version are you using?  It ought to be newer than
a 0.99.xx version.

The dovecot list is pretty active, and it's a good place to get info
like this.

There are some workarounds that you can enable in its config file, and
I notice that one of them talks about a Thunderbird issue, as follows:

  #   tb-extra-mailbox-sep:
  #     With mbox storage a mailbox can contain either mails or submailboxes,
  #     but not both. Thunderbird separates these two by forcing server to
  #     accept '/' suffix in mailbox names in subscriptions list.

Maybe if you enable that?

mm