[Dovecot] help: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask.
Am tryin to move from uw-imapd to dovecot, using dovecot ver 0.99.9.1-1 on debian. Using Mozilla Mail v 1.3 currently using mbox format.
I made some test accounts and they seem to be working fine, but my older existing accounts give error messages whenever I connect or subscribe to mailboxes within them. The message that appears on the client is:
"The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask."
it appears three times in an alert box (on windows) then everything seems to work. There are no messages in any of the mail logs in /var/log which would indicate a problem.
The test accounts I created don't have this problem so I tried renameing the home directory, deleting the user, then recreating the user. However even with a new homedir the problem remains unchanged. I have verified that the permissions in ~/mail and /var/mail are set identically for working and non-working users.
Thanks in advance for any advice, Brandon Hoult dolt@lmistudios.homeip.net
On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 21:26, Brandon Hoult wrote:
Am tryin to move from uw-imapd to dovecot, using dovecot ver 0.99.9.1-1 on debian. Using Mozilla Mail v 1.3 currently using mbox format.
I made some test accounts and they seem to be working fine, but my older existing accounts give error messages whenever I connect or subscribe to mailboxes within them. The message that appears on the client is:
"The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask."
Mozilla is probably remembering some old settings from uw-imapd. I'm not sure what exactly, since they should have pretty similiar settings. Maybe anyway related to handling ~/mail or namespaces in general.
That error happens anyway if client tries to use absolute file paths (/path, \path, ~/path/) or tries to use ../ or ..\ in the path. '\' checking isn't actually really needed, but I thought I might as well prepare for future VMS/Windows port :)
Instead of giving the error, I could also just make Dovecot ignore that. I'm not sure if it'd be better..
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