[Dovecot] Problems with Sent folder

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jul 1 21:54:21 EEST 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:50 -0600, james edwards wrote:
> We are using dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3; the users use IMAP. I have had
> several of these today where the user cannot
> write to their Sent folder on the server. The users do own everything
> in their home dir:
> 
> [root at jidmail lcrdjav]# file Sent
> Sent: ISO-8859 HTML document text
> 
> What is up with the HTML, I am not used to seeing this in 
> any of the IMAP folders ? 

At least with me the "file" command doesn't properly detect mbox files.
Instead check that the beginning of the file contains "From ".

Anyway, 0.99.x can be somewhat buggy with mboxes, and that's most likely
your problem. Use 1.0rc instead.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 191 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060701/a01cb32a/attachment.pgp


More information about the dovecot mailing list