[Dovecot] bug report, from apple.com

Rick Romero rick at havokmon.com
Thu Sep 7 15:01:43 EEST 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 16:56 -0700, Jason Fesler wrote:
> > You could work around this by creating yet another hidden namespace with 
> > empty prefix. But yea, I guess it's still a bug in Dovecot. Although I'm not 
> > exactly sure what separator it should return in that case. Probably either 
> > the first non-hidden namespace's, or the inbox=yes namespace's..
> 
> Bruce believed the problem was not so much the prefix but the seperator. 
> In any case, I'd recommend advertising the inbox=yes namespace.
> I'll be glad to test any code changes and report back to Bruce Arther 
> <barther at apple.com>.
> 
> My workaround was to set up a second dovecot instance, "stock", on a 
> different IP, with a different (signed, ug) certificate.  In that 
> configuration, the assumptions Apple Mail.app makes, work.

I tried setting up the second namespace, but I ended up getting Mail.app
working, and duplicate folders everywhere else.

My solution was like yours, except I just fired courier back up on
another port. :(

Rick




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