[Dovecot] Re: pine, INBOX, and dovecot

[Jethro R Binks]

Typical, send something off and _then_ get the inspiration.

Poking around a bit more, it looks like a peculiarity of my pine setup.
I'm testing dovecot on a new server, but my real mail is still being
delivered to the old server, also read in that pine.

For testing, I added:

"new server" {dns.name}[],

to folder-collections in my .pinerc, as an addition to my usual setup.
That gives me a folder collection I can select, displaying the folders I
mentioned, but not the inbox.  I now see that the inbox is treated
specially.

I tried adding:

{dns.name}inbox

to incoming-folders, and I got a new collection called Incoming-Folders or
something with my usual INBOX folder and the inbox on the new server.
Neither of the other collection (current or dovecot testing) now lists an
inbox, which I think I remember is just the way pine works.

So, I surmise that if I just run a "clean" pine config, without anything
relating to my current server and just stuff relating to the testing
server, I will be able to see the inbox.  But it is too late tonight to
test that now.

If it works out, sorry for wasting your brain cells!

Jethro.





On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Jethro R Binks wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been experimenting with Dovecot; tests with Maildir seemed to work
> fine.  However, now I'm trying with mbox folders, and I'm having a problem
> where I do not get an INBOX listed using pine.  Outlook Express and
> IMP show it fine.
>
> I snooped part of the session, which appears to go like this (it is
> slightly garbled, sorry -- I couldn't get rawlog to work by creating
> dovecot.rawlog in the mail home directory):
>
> 00000002 CAPABILITY\r\n
> * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UN
> 00000003 LIST "" %\r\n"
> * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX
> * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "test"
> * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) ""/" "Sent Items"
> * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "Drafts"
> 0000000a OK List .completed..
>
> Pine just displays "test", "Sent Items", and "Drafts".  OE happily
> downloads mail from the inbox I put there, and IMP can see it and read it.
>
> Perhaps there is something there that IMAP protocol people might see.  Or
> else, perhaps there is a known reason why pine does this?  Any clues would
> be appreciated - I browsed the list archives but couldn't spot anything
> very relevant.
>
> Pine version is very recent - I updated today to 4.56.
>
> Incidentally, is mbox support still broken in the CVS version?  Is there
> an expected timescale for the next release, preferably with mbox fixed
> again?!
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Jethro.
>
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> Jethro R Binks
> Computing Officer, IT Services
> University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
>


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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK