[Dovecot] v1.0.13: maildirfolder not being created

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    I'm using version 1.0.13 of dovecot. I know it's somewhat dated, but
>> that's the latest that Debian etch offers, and I would like to avoid
>> compiling by myself if possible.
>>
>>    dovecot is not creating the 'maildirfolder' in folders that are
>> created via IMAP. Looking at the NEWS file, this was implemented in
>> v1.0.rc7, so my version should have that working already. Is there
>> anything else that needs to be done?
>
> I haven't touched that code for a long time. I just tested with 1.0.15
> and it is created correctly. There isn't really anything in
> configuration that should break it either.. Well, you could always see
> if it gets created manually:
>
> telnet localhost 143
> x login user pass
> y create testbox
>
> And then check again for sure that there's no maildirfolder in
> /home/vmail/%d/%n/INBOX/.testbox/

I've made this test, and found out that the maildirfolder is created if
there is no dovecot-shared file in INBOX/. But if there is, then it does
not get created.

> If there really isn't, you could see if strace shows something useful.
> Before the testbox creation run "strace -p <pid of imap process>" and
> post the output.

I've done that, and apparently dovecot isn't even trying to create the
maildirfolder file:
Process 32277 attached - interrupt to quit
gettimeofday({1214144259, 856957}, {240, 0}) = 0
gettimeofday({1214144259, 856996}, NULL) = 0
epoll_wait(4, {}, 3, 7450)              = 0
gettimeofday({1214144267, 306066}, {240, 0}) = 0
gettimeofday({1214144267, 306107}, NULL) = 0
epoll_wait(4, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=135105032, u64=135105032}}}, 3, 10000) = 1
gettimeofday({1214144272, 528408}, {240, 0}) = 0
read(0, "4 create test3\n", 4096)       = 15
setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [1], 4) = 0
stat64("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3", 0xbf9350ac) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/dovecot-shared",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
umask(027)                              = 077
mkdir("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/cur", 0777) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mkdir("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3", 0777) = 0
mkdir("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/cur", 0777) = 0
mkdir("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/new", 0777) = 0
stat64("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/tmp",
0xbf93505c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mkdir("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/tmp", 0777) = 0
chown32("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/cur", -1, 8) = 0
chown32("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/new", -1, 8) = 0
chown32("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/tmp", -1, 8) = 0
open("/home/vmail/kalinowski.com.br/test/INBOX/.test3/dovecot-shared",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0640) = 7
umask(077)                              = 027
fchown32(7, -1, 8)                      = 0
close(7)                                = 0
write(1, "4 OK Create completed.\r\n", 24) = 24
setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [0], 4) = 0
gettimeofday({1214144272, 529943}, NULL) = 0
epoll_wait(4, {}, 3, 4777)              = 0
gettimeofday({1214144277, 305725}, {240, 0}) = 0
gettimeofday({1214144277, 305758}, NULL) = 0
epoll_wait(4, {}, 3, 1)                 = 0
gettimeofday({1214144277, 306737}, {240, 0}) = 0
gettimeofday({1214144277, 306767}, NULL) = 0
epoll_wait(4, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=135105032, u64=135105032}}}, 3, 10000) = 1
gettimeofday({1214144279, 474945}, {240, 0}) = 0
read(0, "", 4081)                       = 0
write(2, "\1IConnection closed\n", 20)  = 20
epoll_ctl(4, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, 0, {0, {u32=135105032, u64=135105032}}) = 0
close(0)                                = 0
close(1)                                = 0
epoll_ctl(4, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, 2, {0, {u32=135099264, u64=135099264}}) = 0
munmap(0xb7f68000, 10336)               = 0
munmap(0xb7e27000, 39884)               = 0
close(3)                                = 0
epoll_ctl(4, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, 5, {0, {u32=135099168, u64=135099168}}) = 0
close(5)                                = 0
close(6)                                = 0
close(4)                                = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?
Process 32277 detached


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