Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
Hi, I see INOBX, Trash, Drafts. All but INBOX have no items, after doing list command. Thanks, Eoin -Original Message- From: dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of punit_j Sent: 31 May 2009 19:45 To: ekenn...@sherlings.com Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot Did you try looking for the folders by connecting to IMAP using command line. telnet servername 143 a1 login username pass a2 list * Check if you could see anything. - Sherling Sons Ltd, Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8, Ireland. Company Reg No. 9294 Website: www.sherlingsteel.com
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
First find where the mailboxes exist on your filesystem. Then make sure mail_location points to that place. On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 09:40 +0100, Eoin Kennedy wrote: Hi, I see INOBX, Trash, Drafts. All but INBOX have no items, after doing list command. Thanks, Eoin -Original Message- From: dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of punit_j Sent: 31 May 2009 19:45 To: ekenn...@sherlings.com Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot Did you try looking for the folders by connecting to IMAP using command line. telnet servername 143 a1 login username pass a2 list * Check if you could see anything. - Sherling Sons Ltd, Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8, Ireland. Company Reg No. 9294 Website: www.sherlingsteel.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
Hi, That's what I'm looking for at the moment. Thanks, Eoin -Original Message- From: dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: 29 May 2009 23:13 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot on 5-29-2009 6:51 AM Eoin Kennedy spake the following: Hi, Here is the situation, I hope somebody can help me. Our Email server running ubuntu 8.04.1 and dovecot 1.0.10 rebooted, and when it came back up the dovecot config had changed. Prior to the reboot, users stored their emails and folders in /var/mail/~username. Then the config became /var/mail/username for the main Inbox and /home/~username/mail for Folders. Now, none of the folders that users had created in their IMAP account are visible, and their contents are not in the main Inbox file. For example, the Drafts folder was there prior to the reboot, and now it had to be created in /home/username afterwards. These folders were not subfolders of the Inbox, but of the main IMAP root. All users were running Thunderbird as their client. Can they be recovered? I doubt that your mail is gone, somebody just changed where dovecot looks for it. Do you have a backup of your old config file? - Sherling Sons Ltd, Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8, Ireland. Company Reg No. 9294 Website: www.sherlingsteel.com
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
Did you try looking for the folders by connecting to IMAP using command line. telnet servername 143 a1 login username pass a2 list * Check if you could see anything.
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
Did you try looking for the folders by connecting to IMAP using command line. telnet servername 143 a1 login username pass a2 list * Check if you could see anything.
[Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
Hi, Here is the situation, I hope somebody can help me. Our Email server running ubuntu 8.04.1 and dovecot 1.0.10 rebooted, and when it came back up the dovecot config had changed. Prior to the reboot, users stored their emails and folders in /var/mail/~username. Then the config became /var/mail/username for the main Inbox and /home/~username/mail for Folders. Now, none of the folders that users had created in their IMAP account are visible, and their contents are not in the main Inbox file. For example, the Drafts folder was there prior to the reboot, and now it had to be created in /home/username afterwards. These folders were not subfolders of the Inbox, but of the main IMAP root. All users were running Thunderbird as their client. Can they be recovered? Thanks, Eoin Kennedy - Sherling Sons Ltd, Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8, Ireland. Company Reg No. 9294 Website: www.sherlingsteel.com
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
on 5-29-2009 6:51 AM Eoin Kennedy spake the following: Hi, Here is the situation, I hope somebody can help me. Our Email server running ubuntu 8.04.1 and dovecot 1.0.10 rebooted, and when it came back up the dovecot config had changed. Prior to the reboot, users stored their emails and folders in /var/mail/~username. Then the config became /var/mail/username for the main Inbox and /home/~username/mail for Folders. Now, none of the folders that users had created in their IMAP account are visible, and their contents are not in the main Inbox file. For example, the Drafts folder was there prior to the reboot, and now it had to be created in /home/username afterwards. These folders were not subfolders of the Inbox, but of the main IMAP root. All users were running Thunderbird as their client. Can they be recovered? I doubt that your mail is gone, somebody just changed where dovecot looks for it. Do you have a backup of your old config file? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders
Hi, I'm fresh starting to use dovecot. Before this I used bincimap, mainly because it was very simple to config. I've tried to find the FAQ's and tried searching the archives, but little came up. My current config: server FreeBSD i386, postfix 2.4 dovecot 1.0.10 client: windows 2000 thunderbird 2.0.0.12 after some inital config this starts up, and I even have the advantage that I can save in the Sent folder on the server. However I have over 3500 folders and most of them are more than 3 levels deep. And I only get to see the first top level of directories. Searching and/or subscribing does not bring anything. Does somebody have pointers on how to fix this, other than manually trying to recreate al subscriptions. --WjW
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders
On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: However I have over 3500 folders and most of them are more than 3 levels deep. And I only get to see the first top level of directories. Searching and/or subscribing does not bring anything. Are they stored in subdirectories in filesystem? Dovecot v1.1 would support that, but v1.0 supports only Maildir++ directory layout. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++ Although I thought that Binc also supported only maildir++ and imapdir, and I thought imapdir also used a maildir++-like flat layout? PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: However I have over 3500 folders and most of them are more than 3 levels deep. And I only get to see the first top level of directories. Searching and/or subscribing does not bring anything. Are they stored in subdirectories in filesystem? Dovecot v1.1 would support that, but v1.0 supports only Maildir++ directory layout. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++ Directories was perhaps the wrong word to use. No they just follow the maildir format .aaa.bbb.ccc So ccc is a subfolder of bbb which is a subfolder of aaa Although I thought that Binc also supported only maildir++ and imapdir, and I thought imapdir also used a maildir++-like flat layout? AFAIK Binc does not understand much other than the basics --WjW
Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:58 +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: However I have over 3500 folders and most of them are more than 3 levels deep. And I only get to see the first top level of directories. Searching and/or subscribing does not bring anything. Are they stored in subdirectories in filesystem? Dovecot v1.1 would support that, but v1.0 supports only Maildir++ directory layout. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++ Directories was perhaps the wrong word to use. No they just follow the maildir format .aaa.bbb.ccc So ccc is a subfolder of bbb which is a subfolder of aaa OK, then I suspect the problem happens because hierarchy separator changed from '/' to '.' and Thunderbird keeps caching the old one and breaking itself. Try a) Deleting/rebuilding TB's cache b) Changing Dovecot's separator to '/' also using namespaces. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
