Re: [Dovecot] problem with subscriptions file version 1.0.1
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 11:49 -0400, Liz wrote: The first thing I did was get the configuration file working for Maildir. So I know that the problem has nothing to do with the configuration file. Next I looked through the actual source code to find any place where a dot might be added to the beginning of a folder. It transpired that there is a constant, MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S, which is assigned the value .. I deleted all the occurrences of this constant, compiled the source code again, and ran into a rather interesting problem. I hope you noticed also MAILDIR_FS_SEP? When I try to create a new folder through Thunderbird on a separate machine, the folder is not visible unless I restart Thunderbird. I checked on the machine acting as a server and the folder is created and the subscriptions file is updated, and the dot at the beginning is indeed absent. So I see no reason why this should not work. First you could try manually the same thing. Check that all mailboxes really are listed: 1 LIST * Try creating + subscribing: 2 CREATE mailbox 3 SUBSCRIBE mailbox Check that it's found from subscriptions: 4 LSUB * And might as well check that LIST also finds it: 5 LIST * If none of that showed anything broken, you could check what Thunderbird and Dovecot talk with each others and see if there's something wrong with that. For example use rawlog. http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#sniffing Also if you do this, it might be a good idea to change Dovecot's internal files to begin with a dot so that user is allowed to create e.g. dovecot mailbox. #define SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME subscriptions #define MAILDIR_INDEX_PREFIX dovecot.index You should also check that deleting mailboxes works right. There's this: #define MAILDIR_UNLINK_DIRNAME MAILDIR_FS_SEP_SDOVECOT-TRASHED I'm not sure how it works if you delete the separators. If LIST sees such a directory it goes and deletes it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Dovecot] problem with subscriptions file version 1.0.1
Hello, I am currently working on a patch to add IMAPdir support to dovecot. (For those who do not know, IMAPdir is exactly like Maildir except that instead of having a folder .foo it would just be foo. The advantage is that the file system is slightly easier to search through without the dot in front of the folders.) The first thing I did was get the configuration file working for Maildir. So I know that the problem has nothing to do with the configuration file. Next I looked through the actual source code to find any place where a dot might be added to the beginning of a folder. It transpired that there is a constant, MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S, which is assigned the value .. I deleted all the occurrences of this constant, compiled the source code again, and ran into a rather interesting problem. When I try to create a new folder through Thunderbird on a separate machine, the folder is not visible unless I restart Thunderbird. I checked on the machine acting as a server and the folder is created and the subscriptions file is updated, and the dot at the beginning is indeed absent. So I see no reason why this should not work. If I had deleted some of the constants that ought not have been deleted, the subscriptions file would not be readable at all and I would not be able to see the folder when Thunderbird restarts. If there were some sort of deadlock going on with the subscriptions file, one would think that it would not be caused by deleting the constants. I would have run into the problem before editing any of the source code. I know for fact that the only thing different about my source code and the code available for downloading is the deleted constants. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. If you need more information, please feel free to prompt me for it because I have no idea what might be useful that I have not already provided. Regards, Elizabeth Bermel
