[Dovecot] problems with migration to Maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

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.
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