On Friday 27 Jan 2006 19:32, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 19:25 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
The text file looks exactly like an mbox file - it is the two messages, complete with headers, concatenated.
That's strange. It probably includes From .... lines too, making it a complete mbox file.
Exactly.
There already is an .INBOX.Design folder, set up with all the correct contents.
Except the missing two mails? I guess you see all these via dovecot too, right? And in a folder displayed as something like INBOX/Design by your mail client.
I wonder what would happen if I renamed Design to Pattern?
That still wouldn't be correct. It should be named .Pattern.
I wonder if .INBOX.Design would then show up?
Oh inbox.design does not show up via imap?
I'm beginning to think that the Design folder I can see is the correct, empty folder.
And if it did, would I be able to simply move the messages into the correct folder using a file manager?
In theory, yes, but you'd have to look out for filename clashes.
Renaming the dud folder to .Pattern didn't make it show up in the MUA.
Here's how maildir works: Maildir/ cur/ <- all mails in INBOX go here new/ <- new mails stored here until dovecot moves them to cur tmp/ .INBOX/ <- only dovecot control stuff in here .FOLDER/ cur/ <- mails in FOLDER go here new/ <- new mails stored here until dovecot moves them to cur tmp/ .INBOX.FOLDER/ cur,new,tmp - mail for subfolder FOLDER of INBOX go here.
Maybe dovecot is tripped up by the fact that you indeed have .Design, but it isn't a folder. Selecting it in your mail client (if it shows) should give an error (dovecot has an option to ignore non-directories, so that might be on too)
I didn't see any error.
OK - I've copied the two messages from .Pattern/cur into .INBOX.Design/cur (they were in new, but have jumped across to cur!). Now when I use kmail from here to check mail it flags up that there are two unread messages but if I try to read them they flash on screen and immediately they are invisible again.
It's probably not worth worrying any more about them - unless there is a likelihood that I have corrupted indexes. They were only test messages, and I can replace them. Is the following procmail rule correct, though, for putting them into .INBOX.Design?
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- ^To:.*design@lydgate.org ${MAILDIR}.Design
Anne
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