[Dovecot] Re: Bug#224092: Dovecot IMAP: detection of folders

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote:

> Package: dovecot-imapd
> Version: 0.99.10.4-2
> Severity: normal
>
> When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of "only subscribed
> folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as mail
> folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it
> aborts halfway with the message:
>
> Unable to get information about folder imap.index. The server replied:
> Internal error [2003-12-15 23:53:05]
>
> I noticed the same thing with the .subscription-file, but that seems to
> have disappeared after a reinstall of dovecot*. Squirrelmail, which
> only checks subscribed folders, has no problems.
>
> The problem started with the last upgrade from 0.99.10.4-1 to -2. -1 was
> working fine. I am using Debian GNU/Linux unstable (fully updated) with
> kernel 2.4.18-686.

I don't think the problem was caused by the upgrade as I only changed one
Debian dependency.

I am Cc'ing the Dovecot mailing list to see if the developer or anyone
else has some insight into this.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org>
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