SquirrelMail Folders with Outlook
Outlook Express and SquirrelMail Folders
The first problem that you may experience with Outlook Express or other email clients is that you have these multiple folders that seem to be duplicated. The problem is that by default Squirrelmail places folders under the INBOX locations while Outlook and other clients will place them at a top level. This is a problem that can be easily fixed.
Here you can see the problem in Outlook Express.
This is the way it looks in Squirrelmail with the problem.
The first thing to do is to consolidate your mail directories so that if you have mail in INBOX:Drafts you forward or move it to Drafts.
Once you have consolidated mail then Unsubscribe from the mailbox and upon refresh the mailbox will be removed.
You may also want to remove the unused mailboxes in Outlook Express.
The next thing you want to do is to modify the mailboxes in Squirrelmail. Execute the configuration script and modify the mailbox directories so that instead of having the prefix INBOX , they are at a top level so they work with your clients.
/usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl
SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
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Main Menu –
1. Organization Preferences
2. Server Settings
3. Folder Defaults
4. General Options
5. Themes
6. Address Books
7. Message of the Day (MOTD)
8. Plugins
9. Database
10. Languages
D. Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers
C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit
Select Folder defaults.
[INBOX.Sent]: Sent
[INBOX.Drafts]: Drafts
Save the changes in Squirrelmail.
The result will be cleaned up mailboxes and then you can add ones that you want to add.
