Accessing offlineimap synchronized mail through a local dovecot

[Alan Schmitt]

drurowin at gmail.com writes:

> Also sprach Alan Schmitt on 2013-12-04:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a local dovecot to read some mail synchronized
>> through offlineimap. Unfortunately, it seems that dovecot does not see
>> the mailboxes. Here are their names:
>>
>> Drafts
>> INBOX
>> [...]
>>
>> I'm not using any renaming on the folders, just filtering out some of
>> them. So I guess the problem is the missing '.' in front of every folder
>> name.
>>
>> How can I change my offlineimap configuration[...]?
>
> Are you storing locally as type=Maildir?  Dovecot doesn't use the same
> filesystem layout as pure Maildir; here are some details:
>
> /dovecot-maildir
>   + dovecot-uidlist
>   + dovecot-uidvalidity
>   + /cur      # INBOX
>   + /new      # INBOX's new
>   + /tmp      # INBOX's tmp
>   + /.Drafts
>   |   + dovecot-uidlist
>   |   + /cur
>   |   + /new
>   |   ` /tmp
>   ...
>
> I had originally configured as locally with dovecot.  I did:
> =====BEGIN LOCAL REPOSITORY=====
> type = IMAP
> preauthtunnel = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Mail/offlineimap-account
> ======END LOCAL REPOSITORY======
>
> I would back up your metadata= and localfolders= directories (or the
> relevant accounts in them, if you have more than one) and start from
> scratch.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I tried something very similar, using a
dovecot configuration file to have my inbox live under .INBOX.

I've started from scratch and downloaded all my mail during the night,
and I have not see anything bad happen.

Thanks again,

Alan