Hi,
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 11:54 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
- The index for $HOME/.imap_mail/inbox is created in $HOME/.imap_mail/.imap/inbox/, while the indexes for other mbox files are created in /var/mail/indexes/%u, like its supposed to be. How to disable creating index files in $HOME altogether without using links?
This is a bit problematic to fix because of how it works internally.
ok, not a big problem for me. I can live with the current situation.
if /var/mail/$user does not exist, syslog is cluttered with these messages for each POP3/IMAP login:
Jun 10 22:33:33 server dovecot: IMAP(someuser): stat() failed with mbox file /var/mail/someuser: No such file or directory
I can't reproduce this.
Since your patch below the snarf-bug is gone, Dovecot creates a zero-byte file for /var/mail/$user now.
Looks like this is broken only with mbox_lazy_writes=yes, which is why I didn't notice it first.
And looks like it's a bug in Dovecot itself. Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/1b6c41524c6a
Big thanks! Your patch fixed the bug, now I can throw away my ugly work-arounds for this. Weird enough I did not activate mbox_lazy_writes.
# dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.main log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:~/.imap_mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mbox_snarf mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mbox_snarf mail_plugins(pop3): mbox_snarf mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs mbox_snarf: ~/.imap_mail/inbox
Happy greetings, Bernd Kuhls