Ah, you're using POP! I'm more of an IMAP person myself :)
Anyway, it looks pretty similar in src/pop3/main.c; it still seems the "mail" variable should have "maildir:" in it and yours doesn't according to the error message.
I've no idea how to trace things with gdb (I can just about dump a backtrace from a core file, and that's it!).
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:36:06 +0200 Matthieu Imbert <matthieu.imbert@ens-lsh.fr> wrote:
Chris Wakelin wrote:
I'm wondering whether your "mail=" should have "maildir:" in it, i.e. "mail=maildir:/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n" or maybe it should not be there at all?
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Here's what i've understood so far (these are hypotheses because i don't really now how to trace the code, i don't know gdb enough):
The message is emitted from src/pop3/main.c line 179, because mail_storage_create_with_data returned a NULL pointer
mail_storage_create_with_data (in src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c line 114) returns NULL because the call from mail_storage_create line 129 returned NULL
mail-storage-create (in src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c line 72) return NULL because the function pointed to by list->storage->create returns NULL. I guess this function pointer points to maildir_create in src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c line 33
i don't know why maildir-create would return NULL...
reading the code from verify_inbox, create_maildir and mkdir_verify (in src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c), it really seems that the directory should be automatically created, though i still don't fully understand the execution path which is taken.
Thanks in advance for any help
also if someone can briefly explain me how i can trace it with gdb, i would appreciate. I know how to launch a single executable with gdb, but in this case, gdb needs to "attach" to a process which is spawned by the main dovecot process, and i don't know how to do it.
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