[Dovecot] Maildir woes message 2

Sun Jan 9 12:20:10 EET 2005

I have done some checking and it seem that dovecot only sees mailboxes 
that start with a dot is there a way to make it see regular directories 
      ?  here is my dir listing of the test account

drwx------  5 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:17 .Drafts
drwx------  2 test  www  512 Jan  8 15:23 .INBOX
drwx------  5 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:17 .Sent Items
drwx------  5 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:17 .Trash
-rw-------  1 test  www   24 Jan  8 19:07 .bincimap-subscribed
-rw-------  1 test  www    5 Jan  8 15:23 .customflags
-rw-------  1 test  www   42 Jan  9 01:49 .subscriptions
drwx------  5 test  www  512 Jan  9 01:49 .test folder
drwx--x---  5 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:08 Drafts
drwx--x---  5 test  www  512 Jan  9 01:40 INBOX
drwx--x---  5 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:10 Sent
drwx--x---  5 test  www  512 Nov  2 09:44 Trash
-rwx--x---  1 test  www  222 Jun 17  2004 bincimap-cache
-rwx--x---  1 test  www   71 Jun 17  2004 bincimap-uidvalidity
drwx------  2 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:34 cur
-rw-------  1 test  www  187 Jan  8 19:34 dovecot-uidlist
drwx------  2 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:34 new
-rw-------  1 test  www  885 Jan  8 19:33 razor-agent.log
drwx------  2 test  www  512 Jan  8 19:33 tmp

The first several directories are created by the client (Outlook) using 
dovecot and the remaining ones are created previously using the same 
client but with BINC.  Dovecot does not see the other directories but 
binc sees all.  Am i missing something in the dovecot.conf i messed with 
a few things but nothing seemed to work.

Ok timo this is what i have done to try and get things to go

I set my postfix main.cf file to this just to test things.
#DOVECOT
home_mailbox = IMAPdir/

Also changed my .procmailrc to
#DOVECOT
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/

My dovcot.conf remained set to
default_mail_env = maildir:/%h/IMAPdir

All this works very well except that all the old mail is no where to be
seen.  I am ok with this as a working system but there must be some way
to global ally link users to there old mail?? even if mail is now being
delivered to a new directory.  This would be ideal and i could switch to
dovecot without users losing any mail or more importantly without me
havening to fix every user account by hand or script ( i have  limited
scripting abilities and my understanding of the maildir system is
equally limited)

I have set things up as follows for testing imaps on port 10443 (imap on
10143 which will only be used locally for squirrellmail anyway) because
i cannot take down the mail system for more than a few seconds at a time
and am getting sick of turning off and on Binc and Dovecot as well as
making changes to a bunch of config files every time.  This lets me run
dovecot and binc at the same time on different ports let me know what
you think of this and what i can try to link users to there old mail or
any other suggestions you may have.

I have left the postfix main.cf  because i do not want to mess up the
working binc stuff.  Have changed the  .procmailrc for the one test
account that has been set up on the server.

POSTFIX main.cf
#BINC
home_mailbox = IMAPdir/INBOX/

PROCMAIL .procmailrc
#DOVECOT
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/

DOVECOT dovecot.conf
imap_listen = 127.0.0.1:10143
imaps_listen = *:10993
default_mail_env = maildir:/%h/IMAPdir

I get this in my dovecot log think it is just to do with using outllook
as client ????

imap-login: Jan 08 19:36:03 Info: Login: test [192.168.0.1]
imap-login: Jan 08 19:36:03 Warning: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF
[192.168.0.1]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 20:01 -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
>  
>
>>>>have noticed that dovecot seems to create direcotories .drafts .trash
>>>>.sent items but my mail from binc is stored in Drafts Sent and Trash is
>>>>there a simple fix for this as i have looked everywhere.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Almost certainly it is your mail client creating these folders, not 
>>>Dovecot.  If you are using multiple mail clients, check to make sure 
>>>they use the same folder names.  I know Thunderbird is totaly 
>>>configurable in this respect.
>>>      
>>>
>>hmmmm why would it create these only after i installed dovecot?  as 
>>before with bincIMAP these forlders were not created
>>    
>>
>
>I guess it's possible that binc treats them case-insensitively somehow,
>but I doubt it.. In any case, Dovecot creates them only if client asks
>it to.
>
>  
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>>No mail is delivered to maildir:/usr/home/%u/IMAPdir/INBOX  see below 
>>and subseqently the new and cur forlders that you mentioin above.
>>    
>>
>
>
>If you want new mail to get written to 
>
>  
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>>POSTFIX
>>home_mailbox = IMAPdir/INBOX/
>>    
>>
>
>Usually with Maildir the INBOX would be in IMAPdir/ directly, but yes, I
>forgot that with IMAPdir layout it was in INBOX/ directory.
>
>Dovecot 0.99.x doesn't actually support defining separate location for
>maildir INBOX, so you'd have to remove the INBOX/ from there. ie. the
>directory layout should be:
>
>IMAPdir/new/ <- new mails get written there
>IMAPdir/cur/ <- mails get moved in there
>IMAPdir/.Drafts/new/ <- new draft mails there
>etc.
>
>  
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>>PROCMAIL
>>MAILDIR=$HOME/IMAPdir
>>DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/INBOX/
>>    
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>
>And just DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/ in here.
>
>  
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>>So this is the correct setting then for dovecot right??
>>default_mail_env = maildir:/usr/home/%u/IMAPdir/INBOX
>>    
>>
>
>That would make all subfolders to be under IMAPdir/INBOX/ directory,
>which most likely isn't what you want.
>
>  
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>>>>imap(test): Dec 30 16:04:24 Error: mkdir(/usr/home/test/IMAPdir/.Trash)
>>>>failed: No such file or directory
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Does that directory exist?  If not, how much of that path exists?
>>>If it does, what are the permissions?
>>>      
>>>
>>No test does not exist anymore but the account exists in my email client 
>>still.
>>    
>>
>
>So it is a real error because the client tries to read test's mail which
>doesn't exist.
>  
>