[Dovecot] Cannot read mdir inbox.
Problem:
Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u
Software/system:
Dovecot 1.2.8
running under Fedora 12 with 1.9 gig RAM + AMD Athlon LE-1640 CPU on a ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard (uname -a = Linux 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:06:26 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux )
Dovecot has been installed from the Fedora repositories, not recompiled from scratch. System has only one hard disk and is on one ext4 LVM partition.
My configurations are
http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confA.txt for "dovecot -a" http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confN.txt for "dovecot -n"
The mail is properly delivered by Exim in the proper place.
Using a client (Thunderbird 3), if I copy some messages in the INBOX, they stay there, but they are nowhere to be found in the /var/spool/mail/%u directory.
User mail is in ~/Maildir.
I tried to make a symlink pointing to /var/spool/mail/%u and, of course, it does not work.
I also tried giving chmod 666 to all files in /var/spool/mail/%u (and chmod 777 for the directories), this makes no difference.
Otherwise, Dovecot works flawlessly and without no problems whatsoever in ~/Maildir. I can transfer huge volumes of email from the future old server and everything is rock solid. I just can’t get the INBOX.
I would rather not fiddle with Exim and have it deliver the mail into ~/Maildir
Google has been stellarly inefficient in helping me find solutions.
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote:
Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u .. User mail is in ~/Maildir.
So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir?
I would rather not fiddle with Exim and have it deliver the mail into ~/Maildir
That would be the best long term solution, but .. : http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Mixed_mbox_and_Maildir
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote:
Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u .. User mail is in ~/Maildir.
So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir?
Not at all. I want 100% pure, natural maildir.
Exim already delivers fine in maildir.
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:13 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:04 -0500, Marc Dufour wrote:
Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u .. User mail is in ~/Maildir.
So you want INBOX to be in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u, and everything else in Maildir format in ~/Maildir?
Not at all. I want 100% pure, natural maildir.
Exim already delivers fine in maildir.
So /var/spool/mail/%u/ is a maildir? If so, your settings should already work correctly. What exactly is the problem? Nothing shows up in INBOX? Does Dovecot log any errors? http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
Also potentially helpful things:
- mail_debug=yes and look at the logs
- strace -p
pidof imap, select INBOX and see what files it tries to access
On 09/12/2009 17:11, Timo Sirainen wrote:
That would be the best long term solution, but .. : http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Mixed_mbox_and_Maildir
Well, I tried that and it works, so this is what I have decided to use.
Thanks very much for the pointer.
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Marc Dufour
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Timo Sirainen