On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Joseph W. Breu wrote:

Upgraded a test machine this morning from beta9 to rc1 and lost
access to messages and folders.

I don't think I changed anything special in there..

an strace on the imap process shows it accessing the home
directory, but not the mail directory. The two queries that I use
are:

password_query = SELECT email,crypt as password FROM users WHERE
email = '%u' user_query = SELECT homedir AS home, maildir AS mail, 1000 AS uid,
1000 AS gid FROM users WHERE email = '%u'

In this example, homedir=/var/spool/mail/filer/storage and
maildir=cfu.net/b/r/breu

Mail directory shouldn't be relative. Also it'd be better not to rely
on Dovecot's autodetection of mailbox format. Change it instead to
something like:

.., concat('maildir:', homedir, '/', maildir) as mail, ..

Under beta9, it finds the homedir/maildir correctly as /var/spool/ mail/filer/storage/cfu.net/b/r/breu. Under rc1, it accesses /var/ spool/mail/filer/storage//mail/

Maybe I should change the code so that relative paths are guaranteed
to work, or guaranteed to fail. Currently I'm not sure why it would
or would not work.