4 Jul
2003
4 Jul
'03
8:57 p.m.
I decided to give dovecot a try this morning. To create a test system I copied mail from my wife and myself into /var/spool/imap. This mail was already in maildir format from our mail clients. I set the mail env to maildir:/var/spool/imap/%u.
Below is a session (via telnet):
<begin> . OK Logged in. . list "" *
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "blackbox"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "blackbox-devel"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-devel"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-dpkg"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-ipv6"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-laptop"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-legal"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-lint"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-mentors"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-policy"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-private"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-publicity"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-python"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-qa"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-release"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-security"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-spi"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-testing"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-user"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-vote"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "drafts"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "lsb-impl"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "bad"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "lsb-test"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "maradns"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "narval"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "python-list"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "sent-mail"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "spam"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "storage"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "trash"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "xdg"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "outbox"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "bf-python"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "debian-bug"
- LIST (\UnMarked) "." "python-tutor"
- LIST (\Marked) "." "INBOX" . OK List completed. . select inbox . NO Internal error [2003-07-04 10:50:51] . examine inbox . NO Internal error [2003-07-04 10:52:22] . examine bad
- NO Couldn't use index files
- FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
- OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox.
- 0 EXISTS
- 0 RECENT
- OK [UIDVALIDITY 1057341147] UIDs valid
- OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID . OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. <end>
I can find no cause of the inbox error in any log. Suggestions?
All of my sub folders come back as read only (even when I use select). I presume this is a permissions issue. What should the perms be?
I am using 0.99.10 from Debian if it matters.