dovecot - Dec 2003 - Re: Bug#224092: Dovecot IMAP: detection of folders

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote:
> Package: dovecot-imapd
> Version: 0.99.10.4-2
> Severity: normal
>
> When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of "only
subscribed
> folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as mail
> folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it
> aborts halfway with the message:
>
> Unable to get information about folder imap.index. The server replied:
> Internal error [2003-12-15 23:53:05]
>
> I noticed the same thing with the .subscription-file, but that seems to
> have disappeared after a reinstall of dovecot*. Squirrelmail, which
> only checks subscribed folders, has no problems.
>
> The problem started with the last upgrade from 0.99.10.4-1 to -2. -1 was
> working fine. I am using Debian GNU/Linux unstable (fully updated) with
> kernel 2.4.18-686.
I don't think the problem was caused by the upgrade as I only changed one
Debian dependency.

I am Cc'ing the Dovecot mailing list to see if the developer or anyone
else has some insight into this.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

On Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2003 06:26, Jaldhar H. Vyas
wrote:
> > When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of
"only subscribed
> > folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as
mail
> > folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it
> > aborts halfway with the message:
> I don't think the problem was caused by the upgrade as I only changed
one
> Debian dependency.
I'm using the mentioned dovecot package and kMail 1.5.4 from Debian SID and 
saw no problems so far. I currently only have a pretty small mailbox running 
with dovecot 0.99.10.4-2 however, as my main personal mailserver is still at 
0.99.10.2.

Greetings,

  Gunter

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 07:26, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of
"only subscribed
> > folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as
mail
> > folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it
> > aborts halfway with the message:
This shouldn't happen normally. By default INBOX's indexes are stored
inside .INBOX/ directory. If you have .imap/ directory in root Maildir,
you had changed some settings in a way that's not really supported. Such
as setting INBOX=~/Maildir in default_mail_env?

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> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 07:26, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> This shouldn't happen normally. By default INBOX's indexes are
stored
> inside .INBOX/ directory. If you have .imap/ directory in root Maildir,
> you had changed some settings in a way that's not really supported.
Such
> as setting INBOX=~/Maildir in default_mail_env?
Ah, maybe that's it then: I use a logical link "INBOX -> ." as
KMail
and SquirrelMail differ on what the actual INBOX is. One thinks that
it's the Maildir itself, the other expects an INBOX-folder. I can't
seem to make them agree...

Would it be hard to ignore .imap.index-files in the root of the
Maildir? After all, they are files, not folders. Or does this go
against the definition of the Maildir-format?

Regards,
Jeroen