[Dovecot] Unusual behaviour

[Andrew Boothman]

Mark Lidstone wrote:
> I thought that Dovecot was supposed to handle that kind of thing?
> Reading from the website:
> 
> 	"Any kind of crash is considered as bug and will be fixed - even
> if it happens only by deliberately poking the index files."
> 
> I've done it in the past by just creating the bare folders - they appear
> in the IMAP folder list then when they're used Dovecot seems to create
> the sub folders anyway.
> 
> The issue I'm asking about here is, should the error message say
> "Internal Error [date time]" rather than something useful?

Did Dovecot actually crash? Did it log a more sensible error message to 
syslog?

I think Dovecot quite often reports an "internal error" to the client 
but then writes a more sensible error message to syslog. Which is 
probably no bad thing as you may well not want clients to see detailed 
error messages - there's nothing they can do about it anyway.

Andrew