Hello,I've been playing around with using namespaces to change the way messages are stored. My idea was to use mbox for archival stuff, like this:
namespace private {
separator = .
hidden = no
inbox = yes
prefox =
location = maildir:%h/Maildir
}
namespace private {
separator = .
hidden = no
prefix = "INBOX.Archive."
location = mbox:%h/Maildir/Archive
}
This works *GREAT*, and I'm really pleased with it. However, it
occurred to me that for deeply frozen archives, it might be nice to
gzip them. Conveniently, there's the zlib plugin. From what I could
tell from the documentation, the compressed mbox names must end in
".gz", so I thought I could simply go into ~/Maildir/Archive and gzip
everything. But when I did that, Dovecot started behaving strangely.
First of all, the result of LIST shows the files like this:
* LIST (\NoInferiors \Marked) "." "INBOX.Archive.Friends.gz"
Which is obviously wrong. When I try to SELECT it, I get this:
? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends.gz"
? NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Friends/gz
Which seems to indicate that Dovecot is treating the dot in the
extension as the separator (understandably), and failing. However, if
I leave off the extension, I get this:
? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends"
? NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Friends
Which seems to indicate that Dovecot isn't translating "Friends" into
"Friends.gz" for some reason.
Then I remembered that in the ChangeLog, back in May, the zlib plugin was changed to look for the zlib header rather than the Z flag. I assume that was for using it with Maildirs, but I figured it was worth a shot. So I renamed the Friends.gz file to remove the extension. But that just gives me an error message:
? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends"
? NO Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
It seems like loading the zlib plugin either doesn't have any effect,
or I'm not doing it right. I have it in the config file along with
other plugins that work just fine:
mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib
And when I check that with dovecot -p, it shows up:
mail_plugins: fts fts_squat zlib
There's no entry in the plugin {} section of the config file for the
zlib plugin... but I assume that none is necessary.
Am I doing something wrong? ~Kyle -- No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. -- Samuel Johnson, on the behavior of the British colonists in America
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