[Dovecot] Problems converting to maildir with dsync in 2.0.6

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 20:30 -0500, Nicholas Riley wrote:

> If I use LAYOUT=fs (as I'd prefer) I get an error because I have a 
> mailbox called "subscriptions", and none of my messages convert.  Is 
> there a way to get dovecot to put its own metadata in dotfiles instead?  
> (I guess I can rename my mailbox too :-)

Besides the :SUBSCRIPTIONS=, you could also have put all mailboxes under
another directory, like with ":MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes" the subscriptions
mailbox would be in "mailboxes/subscriptions".

> % dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail
> dsync(nriley): Error: read() failed with subscription file 
> /home/nriley/Maildir/subscriptions: Is a directory
> dsync(nriley): Error: Can't update subscription +/INBOX: Internal error 
> occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-10-21 20:17:55]
> [...]
> 
> Also, what "server log" is it referring to above?

Well, it means the error message just above it. Maybe this error message
could be changed when running standalone programs..

> dsync(nriley): Error: Maildir: 6ef533cd4cdb1fd454b0226bfc851bb3:2, 
> changed UID 1846529 -> 1846531
> dsync(nriley): Panic: file maildir-save.c: line 892 
> (maildir_save_sync_uidlist): assertion failed: (ret > 0)

Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/c8eb81e1b5d6