On 23/08/25, aholiveira--- via dovecot ([email protected]) wrote:
> I've recently upgraded to debian 13 (trixie), from debian 12 (bookworm).
> In bookworm I had the following setup working like perfection:
> - All mail is sorted to some mailbox folder through sieve (either a
> "specialized" one, or a generic folder under the inbox name like year.month -
> 2025.08).
> - No email whatsoever was ever reaching the inbox.
> - Then I had a virtual inbox which would get me all the "unread" or "flagged"
> messages
>
> This way I had all my email sorted out from the delivery and my inbox cleared
> itself once I had read an email.
This seems like a really cool setup.
> ... but dovecot refuses to list the emails in my INBOX folder
> mail_driver = maildir
> mail_inbox_path = ~/Maildir
> mail_path = ~/Maildir
> mail_plugins {
> notify = yes
> mail_log = yes
> virtual = yes
> }
...
Is the separator below correct?
According to
https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/developers/design/mail_namespace.html#hierarchy-separators-and-namespace-prefixes
it's (only?) Maildir++ which uses the dot separator.
...
> namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> prefix = # can remove
> separator = . # try without this setting?
> subscriptions = yes
> mailbox Drafts {
> special_use = "\\Drafts"
> }
> mailbox Junk {
> special_use = "\\Junk"
> }
> mailbox Trash {
> special_use = "\\Trash"
> }
> mailbox Sent {
> special_use = "\\Sent"
> }
> mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = "\\Sent"
> }
> }
The only other thing I can think of is a permissions issue.
I'd suggest trying with a minimal dovecot.conf just to try and get the inbox
working and work from there. A good way of doing this is with the dovecot
docker image and a sample of your inbox contents, then run it with verbose
logging. See https://github.com/rorycl/dovecot-config/blob/main/README.md for
an example invocation.
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