[Dovecot] Phantom message using mixed namespaces
Hi, all.
At home, I have a mailbox where mbox is the default (for inbox and some smaller mailboxes) and all my lists are in a Maildir format.
I'm building a mailstore server at work where I want to use Maildir as the default mailstore, but I want to keep mbox on the side to aid in archiving messages.
My configs are as follows for mail location and namespaces:
Home:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes hidden = no prefix = "mbox/" location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "Maildir/" location = maildir:~/Maildir }
Work:
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = "Maildir/" location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace private { separator = / hidden = no prefix = "mbox/" location = mbox:~/mail }
Here's the thing:
My home mailbox server looks the way it should, offering me "mbox" and "Maildir" names to expand for more mailboxes.
Work on the other hand, by and large, works as well (in fact, I based its config on the home machine's config with some slight changes). However, strange things started happening the moment I did a "mkdir ~/mail" while I was at the machine's prompt to make ready for an mbox repository. My mail program nearly immediately shows a "phantom message" in the main inbox. If I try to select this "phantom message", the mailer goes into a very tight loop (I've tried this with Seamonkey and T'bird with the same results. I get cycles of these in the log:
Jun 12 11:29:14 (censored) dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y Jun 12 11:29:14 (censored) dovecot: IMAP(xxx): FETCH for mailbox INBOX UID 3 got too little data: 0 vs 512 Jun 12 11:29:14 (censored) dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): Disconnected: Disconnected
I'm running the Dovecot 1.0.0 under FreeBSD 4.11 (work) (I can't run anything later on this machine, strangely enough; I haven't tried any of the later releases since updating the BIOS recently, however) and 1.0.rc17 under Ubuntu Feisty (home).
If I need to provide more info, please let me know. I'd also be interested to know if it's something dumb I'm doing or if it perhaps may be a bug.
Thanks!
--Ian.
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 10:59 -0700, Ian R. Justman wrote:
Work on the other hand, by and large, works as well (in fact, I based its config on the home machine's config with some slight changes). However, strange things started happening the moment I did a "mkdir ~/mail" while I was at the machine's prompt to make ready for an mbox repository.
mkdiring ~/mail should make no difference to messages in INBOX.
Jun 12 11:29:14 (censored) dovecot: IMAP(xxx): FETCH for mailbox INBOX UID 3 got too little data: 0 vs 512
cd Maildir
ls -l new cur|grep grep '^3 ' dovecot-uidlist|sed 's/^3 //'
What does it show?
Deleting dovecot.index.cache will probably fix this too.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
cd Maildir ls -l new cur|grep
grep '^3 ' dovecot-uidlist|sed 's/^3 //'What does it show?
While in ~/Maildir:
$ ls -l new cur|grep grep '^3 ' dovecot-uidlist|sed 's/^3 //'
-rw------- 1 xxxx xxxx 119374 Jun 11 14:28
1181669235.P39856Q0M530312.(censored).(censored).(censored):2,S
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxxx xxxx 512 Jun 12 10:31 mail:2,S
I suspect that my shell's not telling me what my pwd is in the prompt and some mistaken assumptions on my part might be a good bunch of my problem. :)
To that effect:
$ echo $PS1 \u@\h\$
Though I kinda lied; I said "mkdir mail" assuming my pwd was "~" when in fact I didn't know what actual my pwd is, rather than a "mkdir ~/mail". As such, that phantom message appeared in my inbox.
Since this is not a production machine (well, yet, anyway), I wiped things and tried again. Things appear to be OK now.
Sorry about making you go through a Stupid Moment(R) of mine and thanks for the tips. :)
--Ian.
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Ian R. Justman
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Timo Sirainen