dovecot - Apr 2010 - [SUGGESTION] Managesieve: Transparent home dir creation

Hi all,

I'm using dovecot 2.0-beta4's sieve plugin and it works great but here
is an idea for improvement:

When creating the first sieve script for an account whose home dir does
not yet exist then dovecot *does* create that homedir but the sieve
client times out. Tried Thunderbird's sieve addon as well as horde's
ingo.

The log says:

dovecot: managesieve-login: Login: user=<me at example.com>, method=PLAIN,
rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): sieve-storage:
sieve_storage_verify_dir(/mnt/data/vmail/dovecot-homedirs/example.com/me//sieve/tmp)
failed: File exists
dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): Fatal: Failed to open Sieve storage.

Because the homedir was created (great!) when I retry the same action
then all works perfectly well.
So why not make that homedir creation transparent so that the clients'
first try succeeds instead of the second try?

Cheers,
Felix

Felix Leimbach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using dovecot 2.0-beta4's sieve plugin and it works great but
here
> is an idea for improvement:
> 
> When creating the first sieve script for an account whose home dir does
> not yet exist then dovecot *does* create that homedir but the sieve
> client times out. Tried Thunderbird's sieve addon as well as
horde's ingo.
> 
> The log says:
> 
> dovecot: managesieve-login: Login: user=<me at example.com>,
method=PLAIN,
> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): sieve-storage:
>
sieve_storage_verify_dir(/mnt/data/vmail/dovecot-homedirs/example.com/me//sieve/tmp)
> failed: File exists
> dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): Fatal: Failed to open Sieve
storage.
> 
> Because the homedir was created (great!) when I retry the same action
> then all works perfectly well.
> So why not make that homedir creation transparent so that the clients'
> first try succeeds instead of the second try?
> 
This is a bug. I'll give it a look.

Regards,

Stephan.

Felix Leimbach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using dovecot 2.0-beta4's sieve plugin and it works great but
here
> is an idea for improvement:
> 
> When creating the first sieve script for an account whose home dir does
> not yet exist then dovecot *does* create that homedir but the sieve
> client times out. Tried Thunderbird's sieve addon as well as
horde's ingo.
> 
> The log says:
> 
> dovecot: managesieve-login: Login: user=<me at example.com>,
method=PLAIN,
> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): sieve-storage:
>
sieve_storage_verify_dir(/mnt/data/vmail/dovecot-homedirs/example.com/me//sieve/tmp)
> failed: File exists
> dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): Fatal: Failed to open Sieve
storage.
> 
> Because the homedir was created (great!) when I retry the same action
> then all works perfectly well.
> So why not make that homedir creation transparent so that the clients'
> first try succeeds instead of the second try?
> 
I've updated the Sieve storage implementation to match changes in the 
Dovecot mail storage implementation regarding automatic creation of 
directories. I am hoping I have fixed your problem too. I've did a few 
tests and found no problems so far.

Regards,

Stephan