Re: [Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible

On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Dean Blackburn wrote:

Apple Mail is, from IMAP's perspective, broken. It's impossible to
unsubscribe, which in turn makes troubleshooting like this a PITA.

We use Apple Mail successfully onsite with Dovecot, but we did ALL
our client testing in Thunderbird, which gives (mostly) good error
messages. Once you have namespaces happy in Tbird, you can start
cycling through the (few) options that are tweakable in Mail until
it works without complaining (as much).

What you really need is for dovecot to be able to log all incoming
imap commands. However, I have log and debug stuff, everything that
I can find, turned on, and I cannot get dovecot to dump the requests
it is getting.

Note that Apple Mail has no problems with courier

Chad

:)

-deano

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

...

OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap
maildir++ setup with exim as the MTA. Has been fine. I have my
own custom ldap schema for user account definition and authorization.

I installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 as a test and have it listening on
a different port. I would like, if possible, to set things up so
that a user could use either dovecot or courier. Having to re- subscribe to folders is OK when moving to dovecot. (It would be
nice to be able to make a symbolic link from courier's
subscription file to the dovecot one though)

(My client for testing is the Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail client
Mail.app -- it seems to do an auto subscribe to folders)

I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so:

namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator
for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a
good one. separator = .

# Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be
different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". prefix = INBOX.

# Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. location = .

# There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which
namespace # has it. inbox = yes

# If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via
NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful
when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want
to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden
namespaces with hidden=no }

(location has to be . or something similar since my ldap schema is
purely virtual users and returns the actual root of the maildir)

I am able to get the root mailbox (INBOX) to work. I can see new
mail and look at mail messages etc.

I create a new account in Mail.app that logs in to an existing
account (to make sure there is no client cached info involved).
It logs in and is able to see the imap folders that exist for this
account.

However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at
all. dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the
maildir (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it
subscribes to all existing folders for you)

And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a
"CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace

How can I get the folders to work with dovecot using my existing
maildir++ setup?

Thanks Chad

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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net