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regarding courier-imap: maildirmake should repair Maildir
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Package: courier-imap
Version: 4.1.1.20060828-5
Severity: wishlist
In the course of a disk crash,
I lost all empty directories.
(They weren't backed up. Normally, who would care?)
But courier cares if you lose the
tmp directories in Maildir.
Courier gives a fairly obscure error message
(which could be improved) saying that it
cannot open a folder. This message turns out
to be fairly confusing, because one can look
via ls -l, and the folder is actually there.
What's missing is actually a subdirectory of that
folder.
Since this is a rare problem, it may not be worth
fixing the error message, though perhaps logging
something more precise might be a good idea.
But, alternatively, it would be a good idea
to extend maildirmake so that it would not
only create a set of maildirs, but fix them
if they are broken.
It would also be a useful security enhancement,
if it checked and set permissions correctly.
I found a suitable script, at
http://alma.ch/blogs/bahut/2005/09/repair-courier-imap-maildir.html .
It works nicely and fixed my problem,
so perhaps it should become part of the official distribution.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages courier-imap depends on:
ii courier-authlib 0.58-5 Courier authentication library
ii courier-base 0.53.3-5 Courier Mail Server - Base system
ii exim4 4.63-17 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tr 4.63-17 exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgamin0 [libfam0] 0.1.8-2 Client library for the gamin file
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
courier-imap recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
courier-imap/moveconfig: true
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I am going to close this bug report as there has been no response to my
previous email. Please feel free to reopen it if you think this still needs
to be addressed.
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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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