squirrelmail does not display anything but inbox (solved. what a muppet!)

[Stuart Sears]

On Saturday 23 Oct 2004 19:24, Stuart Sears wrote:
> hi folks.
> because my work takes me to several sites where I only have web access via
> ports 80/443 (usually via  a proxy) I decided to install squirrelmail to
> make my email accessible via a web browser.
> My problem is this:
> Squirrelmail steadfastly refuses to see any folders other than INBOX.
> I am running dovecot/FC2 for imap/s, with my mail folders in ~/Maildir
> Every 'ordinary' mail client I have tried sees my folders without any
> problems. Squirrelmail does not - no matter what I put in as 'prefix to
> folders'  (even leaving it blank) - it does not detect any of them.
> anyone seen this before?
> Does Squirrelmail access imap servers differently to ordinary client apps?
> any suggestions would be most welcome...
Actually I appear to have fixed this (typically, after several hours of 
scouring squirrelmail lists, the answer appears to be on the dovecot 
website...)

although I already thought I was using these settings, deleting config.php and 
rerunning perl 'conf.pl', settings as below, seems to have done the trick.
folder prefix: 'none' (literally)
leaving it blank is not an option. apparently the default is to have all your 
folders as subfolers of INBOX (which mine are not)
server software: 'other' 
(it would seem that dovecot doesn't need fancy workarounds)

> Thanks
and, uh , apologies for wasting your time and bandwidth...

:-)
>
> Stuart
> --
> Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur

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Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
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