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Dovecot seems to configure namespaces by default (conf.d/10-mail.conf and conf.d/15-mailboxes.conf) this way:

# 10-mail.conf
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace inbox {
   inbox = yes
}
# 15-mailboxes.conf
namespace inbox {
   prefix = INBOX.
   mailbox Drafts {
     special_use = \Drafts
  }
  ...
}

Now some clients seem to get them right as INBOX.Sent (Thunderbird), others create INBOX.INBOX.Sent (K9-Mail).

I suppose there may be some confusion with maildir vs. mbox how to handle subfolders and i am unsure if it should be prefix = (empty) to solve the problem or if the INBOX. prefix is actually correct there and it's maybe a client problem.

allo
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  • I don't have the prefix in my config, what happens if you remove it? – sebix Feb 06 '16 at 21:08
  • not enabled before and got localized folders, so different clients had different Sent/Trash/... folders. With it, the name is localized by the client but the folder is used. – allo Feb 07 '16 at 21:13

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