Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird trouble with Dovecote and dbox

2008-01-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath 

Timo Sirainen wrote:

namespace private {
  separator = .
  inbox = yes
}


That fixed drag and drop of folders and "Empty Trash". Inbox now is 
greyed out sometimes (after the first start it's fine now). Deleted 
folders sill remain in the file system, even though they are not longer 
displayed by Thunderbird.


Yes I always created new accounts.

I think I'll just stick with maildir for now..


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Best regards,
Hannes Dorbath

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird trouble with Dovecote and dbox

2008-01-27 Thread Timo Sirainen 
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 15:37 +0100, Hannes Dorbath wrote:

> My basic questions now is, are those problems related to dbox, or to 
> Dovecot and Thunderbird in general?

All of these issues have to do with handling/listing mailbox names. Most
of that code is shared with mbox code and that's working fine. I did a
few checks and LIST replies seemed to be ok with me.

Most of these issues sound like Thunderbird is assuming (caching) a
wrong hierarchy separator. Did you create a new account or use an
existing one? You could try if it makes a difference when configuring
dbox to use '.' as hierarchy separator:

namespace private {
  separator = .
  inbox = yes
}



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Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird trouble with Dovecote and dbox

2008-01-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath 

Hannes Dorbath wrote:
My basic questions now is, are those problems related to dbox, or to 
Dovecot and Thunderbird in general?


I just retried everything with maildir and all is fine. So dbox is 
something quite experimental?


Thanks.


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Best regards,
Hannes Dorbath

[Dovecot] Thunderbird trouble with Dovecote and dbox

2008-01-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath 

Hi,

I'm new to Dovecot -- migrating from Cyrus.

Version and config:

# 1.1.beta14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
protocols: imaps
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: dbox:/data/mail/%u
auth default:
  passdb:
driver: pam
args: *
  userdb:
driver: passwd

Linux 2.6.22-gentoo-r10 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have chosen dbox as mailbox format as it is claimed to be the best 
performing -- and performance is the reason I'd like to migrate away 
form Cyrus. I'm aware that dbox might not be 100% mature, but I'm good 
at doing backups. Anyway, so far I have the following problems:


- Greyed out Inbox
  After creating a new user and connecting to that account with
  Thunderbird the first time, the INBOX folder is greyed out and in
  italic. Restarting Thunderbird 3-4 times seems to fix the problem.
  Google suggests that other people have seen the same, but they never
  found a solution.

- After creating sub folders they are not displayed, I need to manually
  subscribe to them after creation.

- When "Trash" contains folders, Thunderbird is unable to "Empty Trash".
  While the folder is removed from Thunderbird's folder tree, it's there
  again after a restart of Thunderbird.

- Deleted folders are never deleted from the file system. I'm not sure
  if this is intended with dbox.

- Moving folders via drag & drop does not work, it just does nothing.

So basically nothing besides reading existing mails seems to work reliable.

My basic questions now is, are those problems related to dbox, or to 
Dovecot and Thunderbird in general?



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Best regards,
Hannes Dorbath