> On Mar 12, 2019, at 5:23 PM, Timo Sirainen via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 12 Mar 2019, at 21.20, Felipe Gasper via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>>      I’ve got a strange misconfiguration where the following command:
>> 
>> doveadm -f pager mailbox status -u spamutf8 'messages vsize guid' INBOX 
>> 'INBOX.*'
>> 
>> … fails with error code 68, saying that it can’t find one of the mailboxes. 
>> (It lists the user’s other mailboxes.) The name of the mailbox in question 
>> is saved to disk in UTF-8 rather than mUTF-7, but strace shows that doveadm 
>> is stat()ing the mUTF-7 path; the failure of that stat() is, assumedly, what 
>> causes doveadm to report the error status.
>> 
>>      I’ve tried to paw through the source code to see what might be causing 
>> this but haven’t made much headway. Can someone here point out where the 
>> misconfiguration might be that is causing doveadm to stat() the mUTF-7 path 
>> rather than UTF-8? Or perhaps offer any tips as to how I might diagnose 
>> what’s going on? What causes doveadm to stat() one path or the other?
> 
> What's your doveconf -n? Using UTF-8 on filesystem requires using "UTF-8" 
> option in mail_location. Do you have it set? 
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation

It turns out we had a missing a cache expiration when a user switches to UTF-8 
filenames. So that’s why doveadm was looking for the mUTF-7 filename.

Now that we tracked that down, this appears to be working as it should.

Thank you, everyone!

-FG

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