Re: [Dovecot] 1.1 and the zlib plugin

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:59 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

I've been playing around with using namespaces to change the way messages are stored. My idea was to use mbox for archival stuff, like this:

 namespace private {
     separator = .
     hidden = no
     inbox = yes
     prefox =
     location = maildir:%h/Maildir
 }
 namespace private {
     separator = .
     hidden = no
     prefix = "INBOX.Archive."
     location = mbox:%h/Maildir/Archive
 }

.. ? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends.gz" ? NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Friends/gz

I'd just suggest switching separator to '/' and this problem goes away.

Then I remembered that in the ChangeLog, back in May, the zlib plugin was changed to look for the zlib header rather than the Z flag. I assume that was for using it with Maildirs, but I figured it was worth a shot. So I renamed the Friends.gz file to remove the extension. But that just gives me an error message:

 ? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends"
 ? NO Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

For mbox detecting this by reading the file header would be extra disk I/O (since often the file hasn't changed and Dovecot never has to open/read the file).