[Dovecot] Cannot read mdir inbox.
Problem: Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u Software/system: Dovecot 1.2.8 running under Fedora 12 with 1.9 gig RAM + AMD Athlon LE-1640 CPU on a ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard (uname -a = Linux 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:06:26 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) Dovecot has been installed from the Fedora repositories, not recompiled from scratch. System has only one hard disk and is on one ext4 LVM partition. My configurations are http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confA.txt for dovecot -a http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confN.txt for dovecot -n The mail is properly delivered by Exim in the proper place. Using a client (Thunderbird 3), if I copy some messages in the INBOX, they stay there, but they are nowhere to be found in the /var/spool/mail/%u directory. User mail is in ~/Maildir. I tried to make a symlink pointing to /var/spool/mail/%u and, of course, it does not work. I also tried giving chmod 666 to all files in /var/spool/mail/%u (and chmod 777 for the directories), this makes no difference. Otherwise, Dovecot works flawlessly and without no problems whatsoever in ~/Maildir. I can transfer huge volumes of email from the future old server and everything is rock solid. I just can’t get the INBOX. I would rather not fiddle with Exim and have it deliver the mail into ~/Maildir Google has been stellarly inefficient in helping me find solutions.
Re: [Dovecot] Cannot read mdir inbox.
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote: Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u .. User mail is in ~/Maildir. So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir? I would rather not fiddle with Exim and have it deliver the mail into ~/Maildir That would be the best long term solution, but .. : http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Mixed_mbox_and_Maildir signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Cannot read mdir inbox.
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote: Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u .. User mail is in ~/Maildir. So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir? Not at all. I want 100% pure, natural maildir. Exim already delivers fine in maildir.
Re: [Dovecot] Cannot read mdir inbox.
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:13 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote: Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u .. User mail is in ~/Maildir. So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir? Not at all. I want 100% pure, natural maildir. Exim already delivers fine in maildir. So /var/spool/mail/%u/ is a maildir? If so, your settings should already work correctly. What exactly is the problem? Nothing shows up in INBOX? Does Dovecot log any errors? http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging Also potentially helpful things: - mail_debug=yes and look at the logs - strace -p `pidof imap`, select INBOX and see what files it tries to access signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Cannot read mdir inbox.
On 09/12/2009 17:11, Timo Sirainen wrote: That would be the best long term solution, but .. : http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Mixed_mbox_and_Maildir Well, I tried that and it works, so this is what I have decided to use. Thanks very much for the pointer.
