[Dovecot] More AFS maildir debugging

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jan 23 09:36:27 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 20:24 -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> > So there's something weird which causes newly created files to be
> > broken. Does it work if you append :INDEX=MEMORY to mail_location? What
> > about if you add :INDEX=/tmp/dovecot-%u or something so that the indexes
> > aren't in AFS?
> > 
> 
> Both modifications fix the index problem on rc18.  However, a new problem I'm
> noticing now with thunderbird is that subscriptions are not persistent.  It
> seems whenever thunderbird connects to dovecot, it gets an empty subscription
> list.  Any advice on how to fix this?

Does the subscription file contain anything? Or does Thunderbird just
break it by subscribing mailboxes?

Anyway, I can think of two possibilities: pread() is broken, or link()
is broken. Try if dotlock_use_excl=yes helps? If not, try removing
HAVE_PREAD from config.h and recompiling.

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