[Dovecot] Mail migration troubles

[Spyros Tsiolis]

Hi Timo, 
>________________________________
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
>To: Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> 
>Cc: Dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 8:32
>Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mail migration troubles
> 
>On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 22:54 +0100, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
>> However, I have this nagging problem with most of the thunderbird
>> MTAs. When I try to delete some "test" messages I sent to make sure
>> that everything works, it comes back with the following message on
>> the bottom of the Thunderbird window :
>> 
>> "The current operation on InBox did not succeed. 
>> The mail server for account "Account at bloomingdomain.gr" 
>> responded [TRYCREATE] mailbox doesn't exist : Trash"
>
>That error probably happens when deleting a message.


Yes, it does Timo. Thank you.


>> Dovecot v1.2.15 AFAIK
Actually it's v1.2.16


>dovecot -n output would have helped. Mainly: do you have a namespace
>prefix or not? That's about the only thing I can think of related to
>that error message (e.g. dovecot has non-empty namespace prefix, while
>TB has empty namespace prefix).

Why do I keep forgetting this ? Damn the gods :-)
!@#$

:-)

Here's the output of "dovecot -n" :
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[root at mailgate ~]# dovecot -n
# 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log
ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_greeting: * Dovecot ready *
login_max_processes_count: 64
mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
mail_plugins: zlib
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  debug_passwords: yes
  passdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: static
    args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
[root at mailgate ~]# 
--------------------------------------------------------------------


I suspect it's some freak thunderbird bug.
It's the only explanation. I've migrated about
20 mailboxes and it's the only one acting up.

Thanks again Timo,

s.








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