[Dovecot] Namespaces and subscriptions
I've got a problem with subscriptions in 1.0-stable when migrating from UW-IMAP.
I've modified the SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME entries as suggested in the Wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration and included the "~/mail/" etc. hidden namespaces.
The .mailboxlist files contain entries like "~/mail/somefolder" and the clients have "~/mail/" set as a prefix.
In UW-IMAP:
xyz LSUB "" "*"
- LSUB () "/" ~/mail/somefolder xyz LSUB "~/mail/" "*"
- LSUB () "/" ~/mail/somefolder
Now with Dovecot:
xyz LSUB "" "*"
- LSUB () "/" "~/mail/somefolder" xyz LSUB "~/mail/" "*"
- LSUB () "/" "~/mail/~/mail/somefolder"
In other words, Dovecot is prepending the namespace to the list of folders stored in .mailboxlist.
This causes Thunderbird to show the folders as -~
- mail | somefolder
which are accessible. Squirrelmail gets completely confused and tries to display "~/mail/~/mail/somefolder" (but works with the prefix set to "").
Am I missing something? I tried Geo's empty namespace patch, just in case that would help, but it didn't.
Best Wishes, Chris
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I've got a yucky workaround that doesn't prepend the namespace when
listing subscriptions and the namespace is marked as hidden:-
--- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/cmd-list.c.orig Mon Jan 31 16:37:54 2005
+++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/cmd-list.c Thu Mar 17 12:36:38 2005
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@
name_str = t_str_new(256);
while ((list = mail_storage_mailbox_list_next(ctx->list_ctx)) != NULL) {
str_truncate(name_str, 0);
- str_append(name_str, ctx->ns->prefix);
+ if (!(ctx->ns->hidden && ctx->lsub))
+ str_append(name_str, ctx->ns->prefix);
str_append(name_str, list->name);
if (ctx->ns->sep != ctx->ns->real_sep) {
This at least means that UW-IMAP refugees don't need to update their
subscriptions or change their prefix.
Perhaps we need another namespace option, or is there a better way?
On a related subject, would it be a good idea to make the
SUBSCRIPTION_FILE an option in the same way that INDEX=, CONTROL= etc.
are?
Chris
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:05:55 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Chris Wakelin
I've got a problem with subscriptions in 1.0-stable when migrating from UW-IMAP.
I've modified the SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME entries as suggested in the Wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration and included the "~/mail/" etc. hidden namespaces.
...
In other words, Dovecot is prepending the namespace to the list of folders stored in .mailboxlist.
... --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin@reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094
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