dovecot - Mar 2003 - some problem with dovecot

hi,
yesterday we switch to courir to dovecot the whole company. there is good
and bad news. the good one that about 200 people use outlook and outlook
works fine (after we make some registry hack to delete the INBOX form imap
root folder, which was required for courier but not for dovecot). the bad
news we try most of the thing before the switch except outself. since the
whole it department use linux and mozilla. and almost nothing is working
with mozilla:
- first of all the folder list can't be subscribed i.e. only the top level
folder can be subscribed. can't subscribe to folder which has subfolders and
mail inside. all folders with has subfolders shonw as an empty name folder
under itself. and you can't select these folders in mozilla's subscribe
window (i.e you are not able to check it even it is there).
- you can't send any messages!!! since mozilla can't find the Sent
folder
and can't move the mail after sending!!! even if you reconfigure mozilla to
use that "Sent" folder as Sent folder.
- you can't see the mails in a folder which has subfolders i.e. it seem
there is no message in that folders.
- we store mails in ~/Maildir/. dovecot create a ~/Maildir/.INBOX and put
the index files of the ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} into that folder but for all
other folders it keep the index files in that folder's directory. it's
realy
confusing.

this is _very_ anoying:-(((
is there any dirty trick to use mozilla?
when thses will be useable?

thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas at bnap.hu>
To: <dovecot at procontrol.fi>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: [dovecot] some problem with dovecot

> hi,
> yesterday we switch to courir to dovecot the whole company. there is good
> and bad news. the good one that about 200 people use outlook and outlook
> works fine (after we make some registry hack to delete the INBOX form imap
> root folder, which was required for courier but not for dovecot). the bad
> news we try most of the thing before the switch except outself. since the
> whole it department use linux and mozilla. and almost nothing is working
> with mozilla:
> - first of all the folder list can't be subscribed i.e. only the top
level
> folder can be subscribed. can't subscribe to folder which has
subfolders
and
> mail inside. all folders with has subfolders shonw as an empty name folder
> under itself. and you can't select these folders in mozilla's
subscribe
> window (i.e you are not able to check it even it is there).
> - you can't send any messages!!! since mozilla can't find the Sent
folder
> and can't move the mail after sending!!! even if you reconfigure
mozilla
to
> use that "Sent" folder as Sent folder.
> - you can't see the mails in a folder which has subfolders i.e. it seem
> there is no message in that folders.
> - we store mails in ~/Maildir/. dovecot create a ~/Maildir/.INBOX and put
> the index files of the ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} into that folder but for
all
> other folders it keep the index files in that folder's directory.
it's
realy
> confusing.
>
> this is _very_ anoying:-(((
> is there any dirty trick to use mozilla?
> when thses will be useable?
>
> thanks.
other probles, that the outlook express can't be used when the folders
contains big messages (it's died during send/recv), but if we switch folder
setting headers only than it's works correctly.

On 2003-03-19 13:52:18 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> >mozilla 1.3b + cvs 2003-03-18 is working well here. with the old
> >0.99.8.1 i had some problems with attachments. working well after
> >updating dovecot.
> 
> we also use 1.3b but with 0.99.8.1, so I waiting for 0.100....
try CVS. maybe it solves your problems.

marcus

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On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:35, Farkas Levente wrote:
> - first of all the folder list can't be subscribed i.e. only the top
level
> folder can be subscribed. can't subscribe to folder which has
subfolders and
> mail inside. all folders with has subfolders shonw as an empty name folder
> under itself. and you can't select these folders in mozilla's
subscribe
> window (i.e you are not able to check it even it is there).
Looks like mozilla is a bit buggy here. But Dovecot was too, fixed again
in CVS and patch in web page.

LIST "" foo.%
* LIST () "." "foo."
* LIST () "." "foo.bar"

Mozilla doesn't like the "foo." in the reply. IMAP protocol says
that it
should be sent, but Courier and Cyrus doesn't send it either. Also this
was buggy in Dovecot anyway since it was always sent as \NoSelect
folder, which is why you couldn't subscribe to those folders.

Another strange thing that I see is:

3 list "" "%"
* LIST (\Children \UnMarked) "." "evolution"
..
4 list "" "%.%"
* LIST (\UnMarked) "." "evolution.juttu"
..
11 subscribe "evolution/juttu"
11 NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: evolution/juttu

Why does it try "/" separator? That's clearly mozilla bug.
Actually
Dovecot is buggy there too, it shouldn't have said [TRYCREATE] since
"/"
makes it invalid mailbox name..