dovecot - Jul 2009 - Sylpheed-claws and virtual mailboxes

Hi!
Has someone encountered the following problem? What am I doing wrong or
does someone know a workaround?

Dovecot 1.2.1 on Debian unstable, two namespaces:

namespace private {
   prefix    location = maildir:~/res/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
   inbox = yes
   list = yes
}

namespace private {
   prefix = gtd/
   separator = /
   list = yes
   location = virtual:~/res/Maildir/gtd:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/res/Maildir/gtd
}

The problem:
cur, tmp, new maildir folders get created within the folder gtd when it
is opened by Sylpheed-claws (3.7.1). Subfolders in gtd holding the
dovecot-virtual files are not recognised as mail folders at all, they
show up but do nothing.

Other clients (I have tested thunderbird, evolution) work as expected:
they show the folder gtd and the sub-folders perform searches.

Thanks in advance,
tb

Turns out that both mulberry (linux+win xp) and kmail (1.11.2) do fail
to recognize the virtual mailbox too.
 thomas

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00 +0200, "Thomas Berker" <berker at
eml.cc> wrote:
> Hi!
> Has someone encountered the following problem? What am I doing wrong or
> does someone know a workaround?
> 
> Dovecot 1.2.1 on Debian unstable, two namespaces:
> 
> namespace private {
>    prefix >    location = maildir:~/res/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>    inbox = yes
>    list = yes
> }
> 
> namespace private {
>    prefix = gtd/
>    separator = /
>    list = yes
>    location = virtual:~/res/Maildir/gtd:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/res/Maildir/gtd
> }
> 
> The problem:
> cur, tmp, new maildir folders get created within the folder gtd when it
> is opened by Sylpheed-claws (3.7.1). Subfolders in gtd holding the
> dovecot-virtual files are not recognised as mail folders at all, they
> show up but do nothing.
> 
> Other clients (I have tested thunderbird, evolution) work as expected:
> they show the folder gtd and the sub-folders perform searches.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> tb
> 
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On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:00 +0200, Thomas Berker wrote:
> namespace private {
>    prefix >    location = maildir:~/res/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>    inbox = yes
>    list = yes
> }
> 
> namespace private {
>    prefix = gtd/
>    separator = /
>    list = yes
>    location = virtual:~/res/Maildir/gtd:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/res/Maildir/gtd
> }
The problem is most likely that since you're using LAYOUT=fs, gtd/ is
accessible using both namespaces. Change the virtual to something like:

location = virtual:~/res/gtd

i.e. not under Maildir/.

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Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> The problem is most likely that since you're using LAYOUT=fs, gtd/ is
> accessible using both namespaces. Change the virtual to something
> like:
> 
> location = virtual:~/res/gtd
Excellent, that did the trick! Many thanks,
t