[Dovecot] problem with subscriptions file version 1.0.1

[Liz]

Timo,

Could you please clarify the purpose of the mask and prefix variables in 
the cmd-list.c file? Perhaps those are relevant to my problem, but I'm 
having difficulties sorting out what their purposes are.

Thanks,
Elizabeth Bermel

Liz wrote:
> I had noticed MAILDIR_FS_SEP, but it did not seem (perhaps I am 
> mistaken?) as though any of the places it occurred were adding dots to 
> the beginnings of directories. When I pulled up the list of possible 
> folders to subscribe to in Thunderbird, the new folders were there and 
> they were checked, presumably indicating they were subscribed to 
> already. So I unchecked them and rechecked them again and then they 
> were visible.
>
> I used wireshark to see what dovecot and Thunderbird might be saying 
> to each other and nothing appeared broken there. The responses to the 
> list, subscribe, lsub and create requests were all "OK", in any case. 
> Deleting folders works fine as well.
>
> The suggestion of adding dots to the beginning of the internal files 
> was also a good one.
>
> Thanks for your reply,
> Elizabeth Bermel
>
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 11:49 -0400, Liz wrote:
>>  
>>> The first thing I did was get the configuration file working for 
>>> Maildir. So I know that the problem has nothing to do with the 
>>> configuration file. Next I looked through the actual source code to 
>>> find any place where a dot might be added to the beginning of a 
>>> folder. It transpired that there is a constant, MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S, 
>>> which is assigned the value ".". I deleted all the occurrences of 
>>> this constant, compiled the source code again, and ran into a rather 
>>> interesting problem.
>>>     
>>
>> I hope you noticed also MAILDIR_FS_SEP?
>>
>>  
>>> When I try to create a new folder through Thunderbird on a separate 
>>> machine, the folder is not visible unless I restart Thunderbird. I 
>>> checked on the machine acting as a server and the folder is created 
>>> and the subscriptions file is updated, and the dot at the beginning 
>>> is indeed absent. So I see no reason why this should not work.
>>>     
>>
>> First you could try manually the same thing.
>>
>> Check that all mailboxes really are listed:
>>
>> 1 LIST "" *
>>
>> Try creating + subscribing:
>>
>> 2 CREATE mailbox
>> 3 SUBSCRIBE mailbox
>>
>> Check that it's found from subscriptions:
>>
>> 4 LSUB "" *
>>
>> And might as well check that LIST also finds it:
>>
>> 5 LIST "" *
>>
>> If none of that showed anything broken, you could check what Thunderbird
>> and Dovecot talk with each others and see if there's something wrong
>> with that. For example use rawlog.
>> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#sniffing
>>
>> Also if you do this, it might be a good idea to change Dovecot's
>> internal files to begin with a dot so that user is allowed to create
>> e.g. "dovecot" mailbox.
>>
>> #define SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME "subscriptions"
>> #define MAILDIR_INDEX_PREFIX "dovecot.index"
>>
>> You should also check that deleting mailboxes works right. There's this:
>>
>> #define MAILDIR_UNLINK_DIRNAME MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S"DOVECOT-TRASHED"
>>
>> I'm not sure how it works if you delete the separators. If LIST sees
>> such a directory it goes and deletes it.
>>