[Dovecot] Thunderbird : open() failed with index file /home/XYZ/mail/.imap/Trash/dovecot.index: Not a directory

[Charles Bueche]

On 1 mars 07, at 13:45, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 13:41 +0100, Charles Bueche wrote:
>
>> I see a file ~/mail/.subscriptions, containing the folders present in
>> ~/mail/, plus ".imap/Trash". This would explain why dovecot tries to
>> index it, and then fails.
>
> Hmm. Interesting, wonder why it has been added there.
>
>> The buggy entry is probably there since long, and then, for some
>> reason, dovecot exhibits the issue only with Thunderbird.
>
> The subscriptions are an optional feature. Some clients don't support
> them at all, and some can be configured to use them or not to use  
> them.
>
>> I will ask my user to remove the ".imap/Trash" from .subscriptions,
>> and retest.
>
> Also have him delete the .imap/Trash file itself.

solved by deleting the entry in .subscriptions and the file.

Thanks a lot for your help and this great piece of software.

Charles