Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update (solved)
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:44 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:31 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
Hi All,
After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the contents of any emails
What exactly does that mean? Does it list mailboxes? Does it list mailbox contents, but just not open the mail?
I believe so. I can see the headers but not the contents.
Also for newly arrived mails? Sounds like it either couldn't connect and is in offline mode, or it crashes when trying to open the mail.
In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I look at the logs. From there it didn't take long to figure out that something had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this configuration line to work:
mail_location: ~/Maildir
and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix "maildir""
With this everything seems to be fixed.
I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the rules for mail_location had changed.
Thanks for your help and hints,
Paul
On 2/26/2009, Paul Scott (waterhorse@ultrasw.com) wrote:
I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the rules for mail_location had changed.
If anything its a packaging bug, or even a PEBKAC error (failure to read release docs), but it is certainly not a dovecot bug.
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Best regards,
Charles
Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2/26/2009, Paul Scott (waterhorse@ultrasw.com) wrote:
I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the rules for mail_location had changed.
If anything its a packaging bug, or even a PEBKAC error (failure to read release docs), but it is certainly not a dovecot bug.
Above all I am grateful I have solved the problem with help from this list.
I somewhat agree with you about the source of the problem (if any) and will pursue it on the Debian lists.
I have now looked through the latest several news entries without finding an entry about this change. Do you know when it happened or why my mail system (fetchmail - exim4 - dovecot - thunderbird) would work for many months until the upgrade to 1.1.11?
Thanks,
Paul
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 02:04 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I look at the logs. From there it didn't take long to figure out that something had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this configuration line to work:
mail_location: ~/Maildir
and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix "maildir""
With this everything seems to be fixed.
I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the rules for mail_location had changed.
The rules haven't really changed. If you don't add the maildir: prefix, Dovecot tries to detect automatically if it's mbox or maildir. With Maildir the detection is done by checking if ~/Maildir/cur/ directory exists. It does this with v1.1, v1.0.15 and I'm pretty sure also with older v1.0 versions. So why it broke with the upgrade, I don't really know.
On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 02:04 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I
look at the logs. From there it didn't take long to figure out that
something had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this configuration line to work:mail_location: ~/Maildir
and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix
"maildir""With this everything seems to be fixed.
I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me
that the rules for mail_location had changed.The rules haven't really changed. If you don't add the maildir:
prefix, Dovecot tries to detect automatically if it's mbox or maildir. With Maildir the detection is done by checking if ~/Maildir/cur/ directory exists. It does this with v1.1, v1.0.15 and I'm pretty sure also with older v1.0 versions. So why it broke with the upgrade, I don't really know.
Ok. Thanks! I've got my situation fixed rather painlessly.
I may follow it up on the Debian lists just in case someone else has
had a similar problem.
Paul
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