Mark Lidstone wrote:
I thought that Dovecot was supposed to handle that kind of thing? Reading from the website:
"Any kind of crash is considered as bug and will be fixed - even if it happens only by deliberately poking the index files."
I've done it in the past by just creating the bare folders - they appear in the IMAP folder list then when they're used Dovecot seems to create the sub folders anyway.
The issue I'm asking about here is, should the error message say "Internal Error [date time]" rather than something useful?
Did Dovecot actually crash? Did it log a more sensible error message to syslog?
I think Dovecot quite often reports an "internal error" to the client but then writes a more sensible error message to syslog. Which is probably no bad thing as you may well not want clients to see detailed error messages - there's nothing they can do about it anyway.
Andrew