[Dovecot] More AFS maildir debugging

[Aaron Solochek]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 16:26 -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:
>> I then deleted dovecot.index.log and dovecot.index.log.2 (the only two dovecot 
>> files that were present) and retried the select:
>>
>> a04 select Sent
>>
>> a04 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. 
>> [2007-01-13 16:23:40]
> 
> Looking at the code, I think this could happen when Dovecot tries to
> create the log file, then it tries to open it but notices that again
> it's corrupted.
> 
> So there's something weird which causes newly created files to be
> broken. Does it work if you append :INDEX=MEMORY to mail_location? What
> about if you add :INDEX=/tmp/dovecot-%u or something so that the indexes
> aren't in AFS?
> 

Both modifications fix the index problem on rc18.  However, a new problem I'm
noticing now with thunderbird is that subscriptions are not persistent.  It
seems whenever thunderbird connects to dovecot, it gets an empty subscription
list.  Any advice on how to fix this?

-Aaron