dovecot - Apr 2010 - dsync convert Maildir -> mdbox, separators in subscriptions file

Hello,

I'm playing around with Dovecot 2.0 beta 4.

If I use dsync to convert a users mail stored in Maildir format to mdbox format,
the subscriptions file in the new mdbox is created using the wrong mailbox
separator ('.') leading to folders within folders not being readable by
clients using the subscription feature.

Excerpt from IMAP:
. LIST "" "*"
* LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Spam"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Spam/Test"

. LSUB "" "*"
* LSUB () "/" "Spam"
* LSUB () "/" "Spam.Test"


I am not currently using Maildir, and have no plans to either, so I am very
pleased with mdbox using '/' as seperator.

I am considering to use Maildir as a transition format so that I can use
allready available scripts to do the job (uw2dovecot.pl first, then dsync).

So the question is, is this a bug in dsync?

At the time of conversion mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

I used the following command to do the conversion:
# dsync -u username convert mdbox:~/mdbox

--
Frode Nordahl

On 04/08/2010 01:27 AM Frode Nordahl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm playing around with Dovecot 2.0 beta 4.
> 
> If I use dsync to convert a users mail stored in Maildir format to mdbox
format, the subscriptions file in the new mdbox is created using the wrong
mailbox separator ('.') leading to folders within folders not being
readable by clients using the subscription feature.
> 
> Excerpt from IMAP:
> . LIST "" "*"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Spam"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Spam/Test"
> 
> . LSUB "" "*"
> * LSUB () "/" "Spam"
> * LSUB () "/" "Spam.Test"
> ?
> So the question is, is this a bug in dsync?
No, it's only a known problem, as long as it's mentioned in:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/file/tip/TODO

But this command may be helpful:
	sed -i "s/\./\//g" subscriptions


Regards,
Pascal
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On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 01:27 +0200, Frode Nordahl wrote:
> If I use dsync to convert a users mail stored in Maildir format to
> mdbox format, the subscriptions file in the new mdbox is created using
> the wrong mailbox separator ('.') leading to folders within folders
> not being readable by clients using the subscription feature.
This happens only if you don't have a namespace { separator } set. dsync
now refuses to run in such situation:

dsync(tss): Fatal: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox
hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace)