[Dovecot] Newbie question: shared folders means..?
Hi,
The website says "Shared mailboxes aren't yet supported". Does that mean that one shouldn't have two mail clients (same username) accessing the same IMAP account simultaneously? Or that Dovecot doesn't support distinct users accessing the same 'shared' Maildir box?
Cheers, Jeff
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jeff Turner wrote:
The website says "Shared mailboxes aren't yet supported". Does that mean that one shouldn't have two mail clients (same username) accessing the same IMAP account simultaneously? Or that Dovecot doesn't support distinct users accessing the same 'shared' Maildir box?
The latter one:
User A logins with account A, user B logins with account B - both cannot share mailboxes.
However, with some tweaks of permissions and symlinks you might be able to have read-access to shared mailboxes and you can even get some results with write-access that way. But it won't nicely from the start.
Bye,
-- Steffen Kaiser
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:07:44AM +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jeff Turner wrote:
The website says "Shared mailboxes aren't yet supported". Does that mean that one shouldn't have two mail clients (same username) accessing the same IMAP account simultaneously? Or that Dovecot doesn't support distinct users accessing the same 'shared' Maildir box?
The latter one:
User A logins with account A, user B logins with account B - both cannot share mailboxes.
Thanks - we have a few people using a shared 'support' account, and I thought that might account for failed asserts I'm seeing every few minutes:
dovecot: Nov 11 15:52:23 Error: child 8270 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Nov 11 16:03:05 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing) dovecot: Nov 11 16:03:05 Error: child 8283 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Nov 11 16:06:15 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing) dovecot: Nov 11 16:06:15 Error: child 8415 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Nov 11 16:27:54 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing)
Most people are using Thunderbird to access the mailbox. Mail format is Maildir. Has anyone seen this before?
I'm guessing it has something to do with the indexes getting out of synch. Is it safe to delete the dovecot.index.* files to test this?
Also, mails are being delivered to the maildir via procmail. I assume dovecot notices the extra files and updates the index accordingly? Or do I need to use Dovecot LDA to keep indexes up to date?
Cheers, Jeff
Hi,
Thanks - we have a few people using a shared 'support' account, and I thought that might account for failed asserts I'm seeing every few minutes:
dovecot: Nov 11 15:52:23 Error: child 8270 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Nov 11 16:03:05 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing) dovecot: Nov 11 16:03:05 Error: child 8283 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Nov 11 16:06:15 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing) dovecot: Nov 11 16:06:15 Error: child 8415 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Nov 11 16:27:54 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing)
Same here, no shared folders though. Dovecot 1.0-test3 and 1.0-test4 (both installed using the Debian packages from unstable).
Access to the mailboxes is with Thunderbird and mutt, format is maildir. Thunderbird behaves nicely on those assertions (it just reconnects), but mutt segfaults when it happens.
This is my personal server so it only has a few accounts. Thunderbird is running all day and I get a few (around five) assertions per day. But when I use mutt it breaks at about every second startup.
Mails have been delivered to Maildir using maildrop.
Regards, Bernhard
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Bernhard Schmidt
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Jeff Turner
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Steffen Kaiser