dovecot - Feb 2004 - help: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask.

Am tryin to move from uw-imapd to dovecot, using dovecot ver 0.99.10.4.
Reading with Mozilla Mail v 1.4.

I made some test accounts and they seem to be working fine, but my older
existing accounts give error messages whenever I connect or subscribe to
mailboxes within them.  The message that appears on the client is:

"The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid
mask."

it appears two or three times in an alert box (on windows) then everything
seems to work.

The masks (I've put a syslog call into the code) are: "~%",
"~%~%" and
"~*". The test accounts I created don't have this problem.

Thanks in advance for any advice,

-- 
Bodo Gelbe

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:31, Bodo Gelbe wrote:
> Am tryin to move from uw-imapd to dovecot, using dovecot ver 0.99.10.4.
> Reading with Mozilla Mail v 1.4.
> 
> I made some test accounts and they seem to be working fine, but my older
> existing accounts give error messages whenever I connect or subscribe to
> mailboxes within them.  The message that appears on the client is:
> 
> "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded:
Invalid
> mask."
> 
> it appears two or three times in an alert box (on windows) then everything
> seems to work.
> 
> The masks (I've put a syslog call into the code) are: "~%",
"~%~%" and
> "~*". The test accounts I created don't have this problem.
This means Mozilla cached UW-IMAP's NAMESPACE reply and tries to ask
those mailboxes from Dovecot, which doesn't support such namespaces.
Easiest fix would be to recreate the Mozilla accounts. Next version will
just ignore if client tries to ask invalid mailboxes.

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