Can't access maildir with dovecot

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
> Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:50:19 +0100
>>> From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles at free.fr>
>>> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>>> Subject: Can't access maildir with dovecot
>>>
>>> I'm a total newbie regarding imap servers. I'm trying to set up a
>>> Offlineimap/dovecot/Gnus system and Gnus complains that it cannot access
>>> the maildir... Here is my setup, put together by copying stuff from
>>> around the web without any prior knowledge of these tools...
>>>
>>> * Offlineimap is setup to use the $HOME/Maildir-free/, using
>>>
>>>  --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>  preauthtunnel = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir-free
>>>  --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>>  in the local maildir part of ~/.offlineimaprc.
>>>
>>> * The Maildir-free maildir has been correctly (I think) populated
>>>  with a single "General" folder.
>>>
>>>  /home/wilk/Maildir-free:
>>>  total used in directory 52 available 5502852
>>>  drwxrwxr-x   6 wilk wilk  4096 oct.  23 11:10 .
>>>  drwx------ 240 wilk wilk 20480 oct.  23 15:06 ..
>>>  drwxrwxr-x   2 wilk wilk  4096 oct.  23 11:09 cur
>>>  -rw-rw-r--   1 wilk wilk   348 oct.  23 11:10 dovecot.index.log
>>>  -rw-rw-r--   1 wilk wilk    51 oct.  23 11:10 dovecot-uidlist
>>>  -rw-rw-r--   1 wilk wilk     8 oct.  23 11:09 dovecot-uidvalidity
>>>  -r--r--r--   1 wilk wilk     0 oct.  23 11:09 dovecot-uidvalidity.5629f967
>>>  drwx------   6 wilk wilk  4096 oct.  23 11:16 General
>>
>> Maildir++ prefixes all Mailboxes with ".", hence it should read: .General
>
> It should be OfflineIMAP's job to name it that way, right ? I tried
> adding "sep = ." to the Remote Repository but it seems it only affects
> the subfolders, not the first-level one.
>
> Also I naively renamed the General folder to .General, and dovecot still
> can't access it.

Add:  -o mail_debug=yes

run this command as the user "wilk"

/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:/home/wilk/Maildir-free/ \
  -o mail_debug=yes

and check out the debug output.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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