[Dovecot] restrictions on folder length?
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Wed Nov 25 19:46:07 EET 2009
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 11:59 -0500, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> After migrating a few dozen people to our departmental mailserver,
> we've run into a problem with one user who makes extensive use of
> folders and nesting them. I've seen as many as 8 levels. The longest
> resulting folder name is 113 characters, which results in a total path
> length of 137 characters (/var/spool/mail/******).
mbox or maildir? What OS? What filesystem?
> Their old mail server handled this fine, but dovecot is choking on it;
> imapsync reports "invalid mailbox name", and he gets the same error
> clicking on the mailboxes in Thunderbird (they seem to have been
> created, despite the error messages.)
Try talking IMAP protocol directly:
1 login user pass
2 create mailbox/name
Are you sure it's because of the mailbox name length? Maybe there's
something else wrong in the name?
The hardcoded mailbox length is 512 characters. With Maildir++ it's
typically 255 characters because of OS/filesystem limits.
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