[Dovecot] irregular problem on outlook + imap
Hi list, my customer say me that "sometime" he has a problem with imap server when he try to move a mail from a folder to another. The error are: """ NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers"""
Like now I had connected to the server for create a "tcpdump | strings" session and the results are:
vj8q OK Idle completed. can9 LIST "" "INBOX" dtZ@
- LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" can9 OK List completed. zp2p LSUB "" "*"
- LSUB () "." "a_folder" <-cut folder list->
- LSUB () "." " folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" <-cut about 600 folders->
and at the end:
zp2p OK Lsub completed. 3j1@ znem IDLE 2tw@
- idling (jI@ DONE Atx@ znem OK Idle completed. lylu APPEND "folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" (\Seen) "30-Nov-2009 10:34:00 +0100" {280844} lylu NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers xbci IDLE
On the maildir home (maildir:~/mail/), it's present the folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers and the same into the "subscriptions" file
My env: debian lenny with last dovecot (1.0.15-2.3) On the log, there is nothing special.
What can be?
Thanks, Michele
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:19 +0100, Michele Petrazzo - Unipex wrote:
- LSUB () "." " folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers"
This means it's in the subscriptions file.
lylu APPEND "folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" (\Seen) "30-Nov-2009 10:34:00 +0100" {280844} lylu NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers
This means it doesn't really exist, even though it's subscribed.
On the maildir home (maildir:~/mail/), it's present the folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers and the same into the "subscriptions" file
Are you sure it's really in the ~/mail/ directory exactly the same? You could try also talking IMAP directly:
telnet localhost 143 a login user pass b list "" "folder.with.dots*"
Is it listed?
Anyway it should work fine:
a create "folder.with.dots and spaces and num1234" a OK Create completed. b append "folder.with.dots and spaces and num1234" {10}
- OK From: foo
b OK Append completed.
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:52:00PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:19 +0100, Michele Petrazzo - Unipex wrote:
- LSUB () "." " folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers"
Hi Folks,
This may relate to one of the few problems I see with dovecot.
This had nothing to do with outlook; rather mutt or kmail.
A couple years ago, sendmail delivered my mail to
~/Mail/<user> and I could cd to ~/Mail and grep and find the
string(s) sought.
Dovecot seems to save its mail on my mailserver as
~/Mailbox/<dotuser>/*. What do I change in the conf file to
get rid of the directory DOT prefixes?
If there is any documentation on this, please point me at it?
tia.This means it's in the subscriptions file.
lylu APPEND "folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" (\Seen) "30-Nov-2009 10:34:00 +0100" {280844} lylu NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers
This means it doesn't really exist, even though it's subscribed.
On the maildir home (maildir:~/mail/), it's present the folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers and the same into the "subscriptions" file
Are you sure it's really in the ~/mail/ directory exactly the same? You could try also talking IMAP directly:
telnet localhost 143 a login user pass b list "" "folder.with.dots*"
Is it listed?
Anyway it should work fine:
a create "folder.with.dots and spaces and num1234" a OK Create completed. b append "folder.with.dots and spaces and num1234" {10}
- OK From: foo
b OK Append completed.
-- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
A couple years ago, sendmail delivered my mail to ~/Mail/<user> and I could cd to ~/Mail and grep and find the string(s) sought.
Dovecot seems to save its mail on my mailserver as ~/Mailbox/<dotuser>/*. What do I change in the conf file to get rid of the directory DOT prefixes?
What do you mean by <user>? You mean different mailboxes?
If there is any documentation on this, please point me at it?
Apparently you want LAYOUT=fs, not Maildir++. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Directory_layout
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:21:54PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
A couple years ago, sendmail delivered my mail to ~/Mail/<user> and I could cd to ~/Mail and grep and find the string(s) sought.
Dovecot seems to save its mail on my mailserver as ~/Mailbox/<dotuser>/*. What do I change in the conf file to get rid of the directory DOT prefixes?
What do you mean by <user>? You mean different mailboxes?
That depends upon the definition of mailbox. Mail to me from,
say, "smith" was stored as ~/Mail/smith; mail from "jones" was
stored as ~/Mail/jones. In early '08, using dovecot, that
became ~Maildir/.smith/* and ~/Maildir/.jones/*. It would be
nice to get rid of the leading dot.If there is any documentation on this, please point me at it?
Apparently you want LAYOUT=fs, not Maildir++.
Hm, I have no clue; I'm too new right now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Directory_layout
thanks much; i'll check this page.-- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:19 +0100, Michele Petrazzo - Unipex wrote:
First of all, thanks a lot for the reply. I had lost hope!
- LSUB () "." " folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers"
This means it's in the subscriptions file.
Ok
lylu APPEND "folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" (\Seen) "30-Nov-2009 10:34:00 +0100" {280844} lylu NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers
This means it doesn't really exist, even though it's subscribed.
Do you know when/why this can happen?
On the maildir home (maildir:~/mail/), it's present the folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers and the same into the "subscriptions" file
Yes
Are you sure it's really in the ~/mail/ directory exactly the same? You could try also talking IMAP directly:
telnet localhost 143 a login user pass b list "" "folder.with.dots*"
Is it listed?
No! But since it's passed some days, my customer modify / rename and delete some folders and I don't know if because he touch that folders or because there is a problem. Tomorrow I'll call him and I'll let you know.
Thanks a lot, Michele
Quoting Michele Petrazzo - Unipex michele.petrazzo@unipex.it:
- LSUB () "." " folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers"
[snip]
lylu APPEND "folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" (\Seen) "30-Nov-2009 10:34:00 +0100" {280844} lylu NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers
This means it doesn't really exist, even though it's subscribed.
Do you know when/why this can happen?
The IMAP4rev1 spec specifically allows for a mailbox to be subscribed
without existing. The list of subscribed mailboxes has nothing to do
with the list of existing mailboxes (in other words, the results from
LSUB are not a subset of the results from LIST).
michael
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Gary Kline
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Michael M. Slusarz
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Michele Petrazzo - Unipex
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Timo Sirainen