On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
mbox or maildir? What OS? What filesystem?
Ah! Sorry- maildir, Debian Stable (Lenny) 64bit, XFS.
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
Well, as I said, at least some of the mailboxes were created...but they're not accessible.
Are you sure it's because of the mailbox name length?
Nope, that's why I asked :)
The hardcoded mailbox length is 512 characters. With Maildir++ it's typically 255 characters because of OS/filesystem limits.
OK, we're well below that even taking into account the full path and filename. I'll start hunting elsewhere.
Thanks for the quick reply, Timo.
Brett