dovecot - Jun 2006 - subscription to mail folders not working properly anymore with dovecot1.0x ?

Hi

we run dovecot on sun solaris 9. I try to switch from dovecot 0.99.11
to dovecot 1.0, with ssl support turned on.
The user's mail are stored in mbox format in Mail in their home dirs.
I was not able to get the subscrition working properly with the new
dovecot. New means: 1.0beta2 and now also 1.0.RC1 (beta9)

The client mailreaders are mainly thunderbird 1.0x and 1.5.x, Netscape
Messenger, and  SquirrelMail for web access.

The mail folder subscriptions stored in <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions
works fine with the dovecot 0.99.11.

With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as
the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing
to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the
file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears.

Did I miss any point in the configuration? Or does someone else encounter
the same problem?

Thx for any help!

-- Alain Hofer
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On 6/30/06, Alain Hofer <hofer at glue.ch> wrote:
>
> With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as
> the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing
> to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the
> file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears.
>
> Did I miss any point in the configuration? Or does someone else encounter
> the same problem?
I'm fairly sure that .subscriptions isn't used anymore after the 0.9
series. The file is just subscriptions, without a dot (as dot files
are treated as folders IIRC). Not sure if you need to remove the old
file, or if you can just move .subscriptions to subscriptions.

Try searching the list archives, I'm sure it's come up before

Tim
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On 2006-06-30 11:41:18 +0200, Alain Hofer wrote:
> With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as
> the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing
> to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the
> file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears.
> 
> Did I miss any point in the configuration? Or does someone else encounter
> the same problem?
Maildir/subscriptions is used now. ".subscriptions" collides with the
maildir naming scheme.

for /home i in $(find -type f -name .subscriptions) ; do
    cp -v "$i" "${i//.subscriptions/subscriptions}"
done

or something similar should help you.

darix

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On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 11:41 +0200, Alain Hofer wrote:
> With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as
> the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing
> to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the
> file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears.
I can't think of why this would happen. Could you do truss -p <imap
process pid> before doing the subscribing and then send me the log?

Or are you using NFS?
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As far as I understood the docs, dovecot still uses the .subscriptions
file in our case: we do use the 'mbox' format to store the mails, not
'maildir'.

The '.subscription' file is being perfectly read in (so it must be
found),
only when attempting to make any changes to the subscriptions, it vanishes.
-> see last posting (answer to timo's feedback) and the included
   truss dump.

thx for your feedback, cheers, Alain
> 
> On 2006-06-30 11:41:18 +0200, Alain Hofer wrote:
> > With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as
> > the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing
> > to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the
> > file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears.
> >
> > Did I miss any point in the configuration? Or does someone else
encounter
> > the same problem?
> 
> Maildir/subscriptions is used now. ".subscriptions" collides with
the
> maildir naming scheme.
> 
> for /home i in $(find -type f -name .subscriptions) ; do
>     cp -v "$i" "${i//.subscriptions/subscriptions}"
> done
> 
> or something similar should help you.
> 
> darix
> 
> --
>            openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux
>                openSUSE is good for you
>                    www.opensuse.org
-- Alain Hofer (PM webETV)
   ________    __  _________________________________________________
  / ____/ /   / / / / ____/   GLUE Software Engineering AG
 / / __/ /   / / / / __/     Zieglerstr. 34, 3007 Bern,  Switzerland
/ /_/ / /___/ /_/ / /___    Phone: +41-(0)31/385 3011     Fax: 3018
\____/_____/\____/_____/___mailto:hofer at glue.ch http://www.glue.ch