dovecot - Jan 2012 - Trying to get metadata plugin working

Hi,

I'm working on a Kolab related project and wanted to use dovecot on my dev 
machine. However I'm stuck with the metadata-plugin. I "solved"
the
permissions problems but now I get

dict: Error: file dict commit: file_dotlock_open(~/Maildir/shared-metadata) 
failed: No such file or directory

Before that, I had 
dict {
  metadata = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-metadata

but got problems since my normal user had no permission to access 
/var/lib/dovecot.
I compiled the plugin from the most recent commit.
My dovecot runs in a chroot. I can login with KMail and can create Groupware 
(annotated) folders, but the metadata file dict won't get created and I also
can't set/get metadata via telnet.

doveconf -N
# 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 
auth_mechanisms = plain
dict {
  metadata = file:~/Maildir/shared-metadata
}
mail_access_groups = dovecot
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_plugins = " metadata"
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  metadata_dict = proxy::metadata
}
protocols = " imap"
service dict {
  unix_listener dict {
    group = dovecot
    mode = 0666
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
protocol imap {
  mail_plugins = " metadata imap_metadata imap_annotatemore"
}

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

On Monday 16 January 2012 16.51:45 Thomas Koch wrote:
> I'm working on a Kolab related project and wanted to use dovecot on my
dev
> machine. 
Very interesting.

Please document your findings in wiki.kolab.org once you're done.

> dict: Error: file dict commit: file_dotlock_open(~/Maildir/shared-metadata)
> failed: No such file or directory
Can't really help with that one, I'm afraid.

Best regards,
Georg


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Chief Executive Officer

Kolab Systems AG
Z?rich, Switzerland

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On 16.1.2012, at 17.51, Thomas Koch wrote:
> dict: Error: file dict commit: file_dotlock_open(~/Maildir/shared-metadata)
> failed: No such file or directory
It's not expanding ~/
> dict {
>  metadata = file:~/Maildir/shared-metadata
Use %h/ instead of ~/

Hi Thomas and List!

Am Montag, 16. Januar 2012, 16:51:45 schrieb Thomas
Koch:
> dict: Error: file dict commit: file_dotlock_open(~/Maildir/shared-metadata)
> failed: No such file or directory
The dovecot-metadata is still a work in progress, despite my earlier message 
reading differently. I assumed because Akonadi began to work (my telnet tests 
were already successful since a while), that the dovecot plugin would also 
work, but noticed later that everything was a coincidence.

Anyway, my config is:
plugin {
  metadata_dict = proxy::metadata
}
dict {
  metadata = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-metadata
}

This appears to work for me - I think the key is the proxy::.

--Dennis
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