On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:14:39PM +0100, Tom Vajzovic wrote:

Hi all

I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc15 to serve a maildir by IMAP.

I have an IMAP subdirectory called subscriptions. The messages are in maidir/.subscriptions/cur/ etc.

Dovecot is renaming the directory .subscriptions/ to subscriptions/

This means that when my IMAP client requests this directory, it gets the message "no such directory", and dovecot also gives the error message:

dovecot: IMAP(tcv): read() failed with subscription file /var/mail/maildir/tcv/subscriptions: Is a directory

The two should be able to live happily side by side, with the subscriptions file called "subscriptions" and the maildir called ".subsciptions".

The offending function is

maildir_subscriptions_convert_099()

in src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c

Can someone with developer access please change this so that rename() is not called if subscriptions is a directory.

That only solves the problem for your particular setup. What with mbox installations? Call it .subscriptions again? And what with mixed maildir+mbox installations? How should a folder named "subscriptions" be called there?

Geert

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 13:14 +0100, Tom Vajzovic wrote:

Hi all

I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc15 to serve a maildir by IMAP.

I have an IMAP subdirectory called subscriptions. The messages are in maidir/.subscriptions/cur/ etc.

Dovecot is renaming the directory .subscriptions/ to subscriptions/

Thanks, fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/1c631fec9c68