[Dovecot] Dbox Upgrade Problem With MAILBOXDIR

[Alan Swanson]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 22:49 +0000, Alan Swanson wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Trying to upgrade from Dovecot 1.1.11 to 1.1.13 but having a problem
>> with imap process segfaulting. Backtrace is below. I presume it's
>> related to these MAILBOXDIR changes but the only documentation is the
>> single line in the news for changing to ":MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes" when
>> using dbox.
>>
>> Current configuration is "mail_location = dbox:~/Mail" so what exactly
>> should be changed here?
>
> Fixed the crash: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/275be458d747
>
> But you can also work around it by using:
>
> mail_location = dbox:~/Mail:MAILBOXDIR=
>
> Although the most preferred way would be to use:
>
> mail_location = dbox:~/Mail:MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes
>
> That also requires you to move all mailbox directories (including
> INBOX/) under ~/Mail/mailbox/ directory. This is anyway the default in
> v1.2+.

Ah, now understand the MAILBOXDIR change. Updated mail_location and moved
directories and all is well, though did have to resubscribe to all folders
below INBOX.

Thanks for all your work on Dovecot.

-- 
Alan.

"One must never be purposelessnessnessless."