well, now that I have moved to dovecot, I'm not getting any spam... in fact, I'm not getting e-mail at all.
default_mail_env =mbox:~/IMap2/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
when I first tried to access my inbox, I was told I had permission problems:
Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): open(/var/spool/mail/esj.lock) failed: Permission denied Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/esj: Permission denied
so I changed permissions on /var/spool/mail to 777 as a temporary work around. no luck. It tells me that I have no e-mail in my inbox... fat chance
[root@harvee mail]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/esj -rw------- 1 esj mail 167772 Aug 14 18:05 /var/spool/mail/esj
what simply obvious thing I am I missing now?
---eric
On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 01:06 Europe/Helsinki, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
when I first tried to access my inbox, I was told I had permission problems:
Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): open(/var/spool/mail/esj.lock) failed: Permission denied Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/esj: Permission denied
Hmh. I guess I'll really have to fix this too soon since everyone keeps having this problem.
so I changed permissions on /var/spool/mail to 777 as a temporary work around. no luck. It tells me that I have no e-mail in my inbox... fat chance
Maybe it thinks the mbox is synchronized even while it stopped in error. Try rm -f .imap/INBOX/.imap.index*. Or just touching the mbox.
Mixing mboxes and maildirs isn't possible with .10, but will be in next version.
Timo Sirainen explained:
On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 01:06 Europe/Helsinki, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Hmh. I guess I'll really have to fix this too soon since everyone keeps having this problem.
right now, you should probably just tell people about it and let them know to do the work around as I did.
Maybe it thinks the mbox is synchronized even while it stopped in error. Try rm -f .imap/INBOX/.imap.index*. Or just touching the mbox.
I tried deleting INBOX which did not do anything. New mail was coming in so the file was updated which wasn't detected. What finally worked was stopping and then restarting dovecot.
so, if I was really energetic, I would go back and re-create the problem and find out what is the right solution. My suspicion is that the information got wedged inside dovecot somehow and the process restart fixed things up.
Mixing mboxes and maildirs isn't possible with .10, but will be in next version.
looking forward to it. Since I'm the only user of imap on the system (my wife prefers mutt) I'm willing to give a shot at trying "relatively good" code.
by the way, in recovering my old inbox I created a new imap mailbox and the process keeps complaining about "invalid mask" and then lost my subscriptions to all my mailboxes. What's that all about? Need a protocol trace?
---eric
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 02:27, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
by the way, in recovering my old inbox I created a new imap mailbox and the process keeps complaining about "invalid mask" and then lost my subscriptions to all my mailboxes. What's that all about? Need a protocol trace?
It's most likely that Mozilla bug. Or maybe you have set wrong IMAP prefix? It tries anyway to subscribe using '/' hierarchy separator while Dovecot wants '.'.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 02:27, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
by the way, in recovering my old inbox I created a new imap mailbox and the process keeps complaining about "invalid mask" and then lost my subscriptions to all my mailboxes. What's that all about? Need a protocol trace?
It's most likely that Mozilla bug. Or maybe you have set wrong IMAP prefix? It tries anyway to subscribe using '/' hierarchy separator while Dovecot wants '.'.
I've never had any problems subscribing to mailboxes using Netscape (I use NS under Windows; I've had bad experiences with Moz under Windows).
Running Netscape 7.1, and am using the "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages" in the incoming server's advance properties as unchecked since I use mbox.
--Ian.
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 10:32, Ian R. Justman wrote:
It's most likely that Mozilla bug. Or maybe you have set wrong IMAP prefix? It tries anyway to subscribe using '/' hierarchy separator while Dovecot wants '.'.
I've never had any problems subscribing to mailboxes using Netscape (I use NS under Windows; I've had bad experiences with Moz under Windows).
Running Netscape 7.1, and am using the "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages" in the incoming server's advance properties as unchecked since I use mbox.
With mbox Dovecot wants to use '/' separator, so it's only maildir that's problematic :)
Next version allows changing the hierarchy separator to anything you want. Could be a good idea to use '/' with maildirs as well. I'm not sure if I'd want to change the default though, might break some clients which have cached the separator.
Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi writes:
Next version allows changing the hierarchy separator to anything you want. Could be a good idea to use '/' with maildirs as well. I'm not sure if I'd want to change the default though, might break some clients which have cached the separator.
Cone is one of these clients that cache NAMESPACE information.
-- Matthias Andree
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