[Dovecot] Just installed with Fedora 2
I just upgraded my RH9 installation to Fedora 2.
To my surprise, imapd seems to be gone from the core. I noticed there are now two IMAP servers docevot and cyrus. After reading brief descriptions of both, dovecot would seem to be more compatible with my setup. Especially since I'm using mbox's.
I have 2 questions.
It seems like dovecot does not support mailboxes inside of a directories. Am I right in thinking this?
Second I get the error message:
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command MYRIGHTS: Unknown command. My client is Thunderbird.
Any work around for this?
Thanks, Mike
--On Tuesday, August 24, 2004 5:02 PM -0400 "Michael J. Pawlowsky" mikejp@videotron.ca wrote:
It seems like dovecot does not support mailboxes inside of a directories. Am I right in thinking this?
It does. You need to edit your dovecot.conf file to set that up:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
Note that this changes the root of the hierarchy visible to the client. UW-IMAP rooted the tree at one's home directory. This config roots it at ~/mail. So your client config may need to change to match.
Second I get the error message:
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command MYRIGHTS: Unknown command. My client is Thunderbird.
Unknown, as I use Mulberry. But be sure to download the newer RPM from Fedora Development. It has quite a few bug fixes.
Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
I just upgraded my RH9 installation to Fedora 2.
To my surprise, imapd seems to be gone from the core. I noticed there are now two IMAP servers docevot and cyrus. After reading brief descriptions of both, dovecot would seem to be more compatible with my setup. Especially since I'm using mbox's.
I have 2 questions.
It seems like dovecot does not support mailboxes inside of a directories. Am I right in thinking this?
No. Dovecot supports this fine with Maildirs. Your directory must be named .something and have the usual Maildir layout.
Second I get the error message:
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command MYRIGHTS: Unknown command. My client is Thunderbird.
That's strange - I use Thunderbird 0.7.2 (under Windows) and I've never seen that message before.
Do you have an unusual option turned on? Or are you using a really old version? Although - I've never seen that message before and have been using Thunderbird for quite a while.
Andrew
No. Dovecot supports this fine with Maildirs. Your directory must be named .something and have the usual Maildir layout.
I still cannot create a sub-folder using Thunderbird. But when I create it manually and them move the mbox files it recognizes it.
For instance:
~mikep/mail/sent ~mikep/mail/Lists ~mikep/mail/Lists/Dovecot ~mikep/mail/Lists/MySQL
Is what I *WAS* having problems seeing.
Second I get the error message:
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command MYRIGHTS: Unknown command. My client is Thunderbird.
That's strange - I use Thunderbird 0.7.2 (under Windows) and I've never seen that message before.
Unfortunatley I don't have anything in my logs about it. This would happend anytime I would click on any other mailbox besides Inbox. What I think was happening was that Thunderbird still had those mailboxes in it's memory so they were listed, but Dovecot did not know about those mbox files since I had not made the change in dovecot.conf yet for it to know about ~/mail.
Everything seems to be working fine now. Thanks for the responses everyone!
Cheers, Mike
--On 26 August 2004 01:18 -0400 "Michael J. Pawlowsky" mikejp@videotron.ca wrote:
¦ I still cannot create a sub-folder using Thunderbird. But when I create it ¦ manually and them move the mbox files it recognizes it. ¦ ¦ For instance: ¦ ¦ ~mikep/mail/sent ¦ ~mikep/mail/Lists ¦ ~mikep/mail/Lists/Dovecot ¦ ~mikep/mail/Lists/MySQL
Dovecot doesn't use subdirectories for sub-folders. The actual directory names for the layout you want will be:
~mikep/mail/.sent ~mikep/mail/.Lists ~mikep/mail/.Lists.Dovecot ~mikep/mail/.Lists.MySQL
each containing {new,cur,tmp}.
Rick Jones
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