[Dovecot] Thunderbird trouble with Dovecote and dbox
Hi,
I'm new to Dovecot -- migrating from Cyrus.
Version and config:
# 1.1.beta14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols: imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: dbox:/data/mail/%u auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd
Linux 2.6.22-gentoo-r10 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have chosen dbox as mailbox format as it is claimed to be the best performing -- and performance is the reason I'd like to migrate away form Cyrus. I'm aware that dbox might not be 100% mature, but I'm good at doing backups. Anyway, so far I have the following problems:
Greyed out Inbox After creating a new user and connecting to that account with Thunderbird the first time, the INBOX folder is greyed out and in italic. Restarting Thunderbird 3-4 times seems to fix the problem. Google suggests that other people have seen the same, but they never found a solution.
After creating sub folders they are not displayed, I need to manually subscribe to them after creation.
When "Trash" contains folders, Thunderbird is unable to "Empty Trash". While the folder is removed from Thunderbird's folder tree, it's there again after a restart of Thunderbird.
Deleted folders are never deleted from the file system. I'm not sure if this is intended with dbox.
Moving folders via drag & drop does not work, it just does nothing.
So basically nothing besides reading existing mails seems to work reliable.
My basic questions now is, are those problems related to dbox, or to Dovecot and Thunderbird in general?
-- Best regards, Hannes Dorbath
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 15:37 +0100, Hannes Dorbath wrote:
My basic questions now is, are those problems related to dbox, or to Dovecot and Thunderbird in general?
All of these issues have to do with handling/listing mailbox names. Most of that code is shared with mbox code and that's working fine. I did a few checks and LIST replies seemed to be ok with me.
Most of these issues sound like Thunderbird is assuming (caching) a wrong hierarchy separator. Did you create a new account or use an existing one? You could try if it makes a difference when configuring dbox to use '.' as hierarchy separator:
namespace private { separator = . inbox = yes }
Timo Sirainen wrote:
namespace private { separator = . inbox = yes }
That fixed drag and drop of folders and "Empty Trash". Inbox now is greyed out sometimes (after the first start it's fine now). Deleted folders sill remain in the file system, even though they are not longer displayed by Thunderbird.
Yes I always created new accounts.
I think I'll just stick with maildir for now..
-- Best regards, Hannes Dorbath
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Hannes Dorbath
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Timo Sirainen