October 2024 - dovecot

LAYOUT=index requires mailbox_list _index=yes
by Marc 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

I am adding a namespace with LAYOUT=index to an existing configuration, and get this notification: LAYOUT=index requires mailbox_list_index=yes Maybe better to just not risk it and add LAYOUT=fs to my existing mail_location=mdbox: lines?

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Namespace for seperate Storage of Archive
by Christian Großegger 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

Hi everyone, I found the Solution myself. The key was to simply create an unnamed mailbox directive so that the namespace prefix directly results into an mailbox that Thunderbirds shows as the Archive. Thanks everbody on the dovecot team for making such a brilliant Software! Greetings! Christian namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } namespace archivns { prefix = Archive/ <--- this is the Name which now appears at the same Level then Sent/Draft/... location = maildir:/mnt/mails2/%u separator = / mailbox { <--- here a name is omitted auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } }

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dovecot/Pigeonhole sieve sets seen flag
by Hadmut Danisch 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

Hi, I'm using dovecot, running Ubuntu 24.04 with dovecot 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2ubuntu6 and postfix. Since Ubuntu dropped mailfilter for 24.04, I am replacing mailfilter with the sieve filter. Problem/Question: I am using something like if header :matches "Subject" "htest" { addflag "$label1"; fileinto :create "Test.${year}.${month}"; stop; } following https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/sieve/examples/ which works, but not as expected: When having the addflag, the mail is delivered as seen, i.e. put in the /cur directory of the Maildir folder. Without the addflag, it is put into /new , where it belongs to (as unseen). Why does addflag "$label1"; mark the Mail as seen? regards Hadmut (please respond directly, I am not on this list)

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Helping doveadm sync detect moves between Maildir mailboxes? (reproducible example of bad behaviour)
by falsifian＠falsifian.org 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Hi, Moving mail files between Maildir mailboxes often confuses doveadm sync: I end up with copies in both the original and new maildir. Exact details and script to reproduce follow. I can work around this by running doveadm move, but it does not fit well with my workflow, which is based on paths to mail files (using mblaze as my mail client). Two questions: 1. Is there anything I can do to help dovecot notice the moves, other than using doveadm move instead of just mv? I have tried liberal use of force-resync but the problem is still there. 2. Is this a bug? Details: OS: OpenBSD current $ dovecot --version 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) config: My repro script below uses a one-line config, only setting mail_location. (An OpenBSD 7.5 server running Dovecot 2.3.21 is involved in my real setup, but I was able to reproduce it locally without the server involved.) To reproduce: (shell script follows) - Make two maildirs "a" and "b", each with a subfolder ".Archive". - Manually write a mail file to a/cur. - doveadm sync - force-resync everything - manually move the file to a/.Archive/cur - force-resync everything again - doveadm sync - Now the mail file appears four times: in a, a/.Archive, b, and b/.Archive. Script to do the above follows my signature. -- James #!/bin/sh set -e # Run in a new directory with two maildirs named a and b and a simple config. mkdir bug; cd bug mkdir -p {a,b}/{,.Archive/}{cur,new,tmp} cat > dovecot.conf <<EOF mail_location=maildir:$PWD/a EOF # Deliver an email and sync. EXAMPLE_ID=12345.R67890.example.com cat > a/cur/$EXAMPLE_ID:2, <<EOF some email EOF doveadm -c dovecot.conf sync maildir:b # Move the email and sync again. Run force-resync between steps in case it helps. doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync Archive doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync Archive mv a/cur/$EXAMPLE_ID* a/.Archive/cur doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync Archive doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync Archive doveadm -c dovecot.conf sync maildir:b echo in a: doveadm -c dovecot.conf -fflow fetch 'mailbox guid' all echo echo in b: doveadm -c dovecot.conf -fflow -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b fetch 'mailbox guid' all

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