[Dovecot] BUG (and suggested fix) in maildir code

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:14:39PM +0100, Tom Vajzovic wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc15 to serve a maildir by IMAP.
> 
> I have an IMAP subdirectory called subscriptions.  The messages are in
> maidir/.subscriptions/cur/ etc.
> 
> Dovecot is renaming the directory .subscriptions/ to subscriptions/
> 
> This means that when my IMAP client requests this directory, it gets the
> message "no such directory", and dovecot also gives the error message:
> 
> dovecot: IMAP(tcv): read() failed with subscription
> file /var/mail/maildir/tcv/subscriptions: Is a directory
> 
> The two should be able to live happily side by side, with the
> subscriptions file called "subscriptions" and the maildir called
> ".subsciptions".
> 
> The offending function is 
> 
> maildir_subscriptions_convert_099()
> 
> in src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c
> 
> Can someone with developer access please change this so that rename() is
> not called if subscriptions is a directory.

That only solves the problem for your particular setup.  What with mbox
installations?  Call it .subscriptions again?  And what with mixed
maildir+mbox installations?  How should a folder named "subscriptions"
be called there?

	Geert