[Dovecot] problems deleting folders
I've been having this problem for quite some time now of not being able to remove folders. I'm using:
Fedora Core 2 dovecot-0.99.10.4-4
And dovecot is setup as using imaps (w/ SSL) and mbox files (instead of maildir).
I've done a small amount of tracing to see what the problem is, and it looks like what happens is when all messages in a folder is removed, there's still a 0-byte file lying around. And the "delete" command issued from mail clients (I've used both Thunderbird and MS Outlook) end up trying to throw the file into Trash instead of somehow sending a delete command. This then results in an error. Maybe this is normal IMAP behavior, I don't know. But that's what looks like is happening.
If anyone knows of a good solution to this, I would really appreciate it.
I'd rather avoid using maildir but if anyone knows whether this will definitely solve the problem, then I'll make the switch.
Thanks
Sorry for asking this again. But I'd really just like to hear whether anyone else running in the same configuration has this problem.
Basically, I'm using Fedora Core 2 dovecot-0.99.10.4-4
And mbox instead of maildir.
Is anyone using mbox able to delete subfolders through their mail client?
What about users using maildir?
BTW, I am able to rename folders without any problem.
Thanks
Here's my original email:
I've been having this problem for quite some time now of not being able to remove folders. I'm using:
Fedora Core 2 dovecot-0.99.10.4-4
And dovecot is setup as using imaps (w/ SSL) and mbox files (instead of maildir).
I've done a small amount of tracing to see what the problem is, and it looks like what happens is when all messages in a folder is removed, there's still a 0-byte file lying around. And the "delete" command issued from mail clients (I've used both Thunderbird and MS Outlook) end up trying to throw the file into Trash instead of somehow sending a delete command. This then results in an error. Maybe this is normal IMAP behavior, I don't know. But that's what looks like is happening.
If anyone knows of a good solution to this, I would really appreciate it.
I'd rather avoid using maildir but if anyone knows whether this will definitely solve the problem, then I'll make the switch.
Thanks
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Danny Sung dannys@changind.com Research Engineer CHANG Industry 1925 McKinley Ave., Suite F La Verne, CA 91750 Tel: 909-596-7888 Fax: 909-596-8388
Danny Sung wrote:
Sorry for asking this again. But I'd really just like to hear whether anyone else running in the same configuration has this problem.
Basically, I'm using Fedora Core 2 dovecot-0.99.10.4-4
I highly doubt anyone else is using such an antiquated version of Dovecot. Have you considered updating to 0.99.13 ?
Is anyone using mbox able to delete subfolders through their mail client?
Is there any particular reason you're using mbox over Maildir? Just curious...
What about users using maildir?
I'm using Maildir, and have been using Dovecot since 0.99.11.. no problems deleting sub-folders.
BTW, I am able to rename folders without any problem.
-- Curtis Maloney
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:36:28AM +1100, Curtis Maloney wrote:
Danny Sung wrote:
Sorry for asking this again. But I'd really just like to hear whether anyone else running in the same configuration has this problem.
Basically, I'm using Fedora Core 2 dovecot-0.99.10.4-4
I highly doubt anyone else is using such an antiquated version of Dovecot.
I think 0.99.10.4 is the version we're running here on everything except test system(s). I've hesitated going beyond that because of various warnings about mbox problems in later versions. Also because it's stable enough that the next leap I'd rather do is to a 1.0 version (which I am running on a test system).
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Danny Sung wrote:
And mbox instead of maildir.
Is anyone using mbox able to delete subfolders through their mail client?
Thunderbird with default settings moves deleted messages to Trash folder and since mbox doesn't support inferior IMAP folders folder deletion will fail.
Go to your account settings and select any other deletion action in server settings.
-- Tomi Hakala
Am 19.01.2005 um 1:49 Uhr +0200 schrieb Tomi Hakala:
Danny Sung wrote:
And mbox instead of maildir.
Is anyone using mbox able to delete subfolders through their mail client?
Thunderbird with default settings moves deleted messages to Trash folder and since mbox doesn't support inferior IMAP folders folder deletion will fail.
Eudora has no problems deleting subfolders (which are Unix directories in the mbox case).
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Thanks all!
Another note, I believe MS Outlook does the same thing as Thunderbird, since I saw the same results using that.
Tomi Hakala's response helped me out:
Danny Sung wrote:
And mbox instead of maildir.
Is anyone using mbox able to delete subfolders through their mail client?
Thunderbird with default settings moves deleted messages to Trash folder and since mbox doesn't support inferior IMAP folders folder deletion will fail.
Go to your account settings and select any other deletion action in server settings.
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Danny Sung dannys@changind.com Research Engineer CHANG Industry 1925 McKinley Ave., Suite F La Verne, CA 91750 Tel: 909-596-7888 Fax: 909-596-8388
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Curtis Maloney
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Danny Sung
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Hauke Fath
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Mark E. Mallett
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Tomi Hakala