dovecot - Feb 2009 - Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update

Hi All,

After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the
contents of any emails

I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I
don't understand dovecot configuration well enough to know how I got it
to go in the first place.

Here is the output of dovecot -n

# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-686 i686 Debian 5.0
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: ~/Maildir
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /etc/passwd.dovecot
  userdb:
    driver: passwd


TIA for any clues as what to do next.

Paul Scott

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:31 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the
> contents of any emails
What exactly does that mean? Does it list mailboxes? Does it list
mailbox contents, but just not open the mail?

See if there's anything in logs: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:44 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>   
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:31 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays
the
>>>> contents of any emails
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> What exactly does that mean? Does it list mailboxes? Does it list
>>> mailbox contents, but just not open the mail?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I believe so.  I can see the headers but not the contents.
>>     
>
> Also for newly arrived mails? Sounds like it either couldn't connect
and
> is in offline mode, or it crashes when trying to open the mail.
>
>   
It's been tricky since I've applied workarounds to deal with my mail but
I don't think I'm getting new mail through Dovecot.


Thanks,

Paul

Paul Scott wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the
> contents of any emails
> 
> I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I
> don't understand dovecot configuration well enough to know how I got it
> to go in the first place.
> 
> Here is the output of dovecot -n
> 
> # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-686 i686 Debian 5.0
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_location: ~/Maildir
> auth default:
>  passdb:
>    driver: passwd-file
>    args: /etc/passwd.dovecot
>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd
> 
> 
> TIA for any clues as what to do next.
> 
> Paul Scott
> 
> 
> 
Hello

What says ulimit -n on your system ?

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:44 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>   
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:31 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays
the
>>>> contents of any emails
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> What exactly does that mean? Does it list mailboxes? Does it list
>>> mailbox contents, but just not open the mail?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I believe so.  I can see the headers but not the contents.
>>     
>
> Also for newly arrived mails? Sounds like it either couldn't connect
and
> is in offline mode, or it crashes when trying to open the mail.
>   
In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I look at 
the logs.  From there it didn't take long to figure out that something 
had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this 
configuration line to work:

mail_location: ~/Maildir

and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix
"maildir""

With this everything seems to be fixed.

I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug.  The 
Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the 
rules for mail_location had changed.

Thanks for your help and hints,

Paul