[Dovecot] problems with migration to Maildir

[F. Even]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 02:37 -0600, F. Even wrote:
> 
>>Mar 13 01:45:37 cerebus dovecot: imap-login: Login: user [ip.ad.dr.es]
>>Mar 13 01:45:37 cerebus dovecot: IMAP(user): Invalid mbox path 
>>/home/user/mail: No such file or directory
>>Mar 13 01:45:37 cerebus dovecot: IMAP(user): Failed to create storage 
>>for 'z_mbox/' with data: mbox:/home/user/mail
>>Mar 13 01:45:37 cerebus dovecot: child 38630 (imap) returned error 89
>>Mar 13 01:48:38 cerebus dovecot: imap-login: Login: user [ip.ad.dr.es]
>>
>>The account should not be seeing that namespace by default...so I'm not 
>>sure why the server insists on denying the client access due to not 
>>having the necessary folders in their $HOME to be compatible with that 
>>namespace.  I've since created an empty folder in each of the 
>>directories to silence the alerts...but somewhat annoying as only a 
>>couple users really need to use the "legacy namespace."
> 
> 
> I think it's better to show errors than hide them. I don't think hidden
> namespaces should by default be treated as unimportant and silently
> failing if there are problems. Perhaps a new flag for namespaces to
> ignore them if they can't be initialized.

I completely understand that.  My only concern was that random users 
were querying a namespace that was hidden from them as the server was 
trying to deliver it...although it was never going to be shown to them. 
  Not a big deal, I suppressed the error by recreating the folder 
hierarchy...but if not a big deal, maybe something to consider modifying 
in future releases.

Frank