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Started by John Stumbles
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:36
dovecot sees ~/Maildir, seeks folders in ~/ on Lenny (OK on Etch)
Author: John Stumbles
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:36
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:36
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I've got dovecot set up on an Etch box to use maildirs, with folders
under ~/Maildir.
The same setup on Lenny finds a user's INBOX in their ~/Maildir but
doesn't find any other folders - instead it looks for them in the user's
home directory.
The users' filesystem is the same: it is hosted on the Lenny box and
exported to the Etch box. I have fiddled with /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
and even copied over the config file from the working Etch box.
I've also tried deleting the ~/Maildir/dovecot.index* files.
I've tested with icedove (thunderbird) and sylpheed on the Etch box
(accessing the dovecot server on the Lenny box) and icedove and mutt on
the Lenny box itself.
I've got `mail_debug = yes` in dovecot.conf but don't get anything
useful in syslog
Jun 13 11:03:45 kryten imapd[9922]: connect from 192.168.1.12 (192.168.1.12)
Jun 13 11:03:45 kryten imapd[9922]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.12
Jun 13 11:03:47 kryten imapd[9922]: Authenticated user=john
host=targa.stumbles.org.uk [192.168.1.12] mech=PLAIN
Jun 13 11:15:02 kryten imapd[9922]: Hangup user=john
host=targa.stumbles.org.uk [192.168.1.12]
Nor do I get a /var/log/dovecot file.
I'm getting to the point of thinking maybe it's a bug with dovecot
itself (although Googling for "dovecot debian lenny Maildir bug" doesn't
pick up anything like what I'm experiencing) and, as a way of checking
this, I wonder if I could install the Etch version on the Lenny box.
# file `which dovecot`
/usr/sbin/dovecot: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for
GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped
- suggests I couldn't simply copy the executable and run that, as the
shared libraries would be all wrong. What would be involved in getting
an older version working? I've heard of (but never used) "backports"
which AIUI are versions from newer distro releases. (And of course I
could try that too, in case it was a bug that got fixed later.)
# perl -ne 'print if /^\s*[^#\s]/' dovecot.conf
protocols = imap imaps
log_path = /var/log/dovecot
login_process_per_connection = yes
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_extra_groups = mail
mail_debug = yes
protocol imap {
}
protocol pop3 {
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
auth default {
mechanisms = plain
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
user = root
}
dict {
}
plugin {
}
--
John Stumbles http://stumbles.org.uk
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Re: dovecot sees ~/Maildir, seeks folders in ~/ on Lenny (OK on Etch)
Author: "Boyd Stephen Sm
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:20
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:20
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In <4A33B953.5030005@stumbles.org.uk>, John Stumbles wrote:
>I've got dovecot set up on an Etch box to use maildirs, with folders
>under ~/Maildir.
>
>The same setup on Lenny finds a user's INBOX in their ~/Maildir but
>doesn't find any other folders - instead it looks for them in the user's
>home directory.
Odd, I have a similar setup on Lenny and things work fine.
My versions of dovecot:
bss@rei:/etc/dovecot$ aptitude --disable-columns -F '%p %V' search
'~i~ndovecot'
dovecot-common 1:1.0.15-2.3
dovecot-imapd 1:1.0.15-2.3
My dovecot.conf:
protocols = imap imaps managesieve
disable_plaintext_auth = yes
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
syslog_facility = mail
ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
mail_location =
maildir:~/Maildir:CONTROL=/var/dovecot/control/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/%u
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix =
inbox = yes
}
mail_privileged_group = mail
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
protocol imap {
imap_client_workarounds =
listen = *:143
ssl_listen = *:993
version_ignore = yes
}
protocol pop3 {
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = dovecot-deliver@iguanasuicide.net
mail_plugins = cmusieve
}
plugin {
sieve = ~/.sieve/active
}
protocol managesieve {
listen = *:2000
sieve_storage = ~/.sieve
sieve = ~/.sieve/active
}
auth default {
mechanisms = plain
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
user = root
}
dict {
}
plugin {
}
I seem to remember having to fiddle with the 'namespace' section to get
things to work correctly, but I could really tell you why.
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Re: dovecot sees ~/Maildir, seeks folders in ~/ on Lenny (OK on Etch)
Author: John Stumbles
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:02
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:02
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4A33B953.5030005@stumbles.org.uk>, John Stumbles wrote: >> I've got dovecot set up on an Etch box to use maildirs, with folders >> under ~/Maildir. >> >> The same setup on Lenny finds a user's INBOX in their ~/Maildir but >> doesn't find any other folders - instead it looks for them in the user's >> home directory. > > Odd, I have a similar setup on Lenny and things work fine. OK, thanks. FWIW I found a workaround: I installed courier instead ;-) -- John Stumbles http://yaph.org.uk :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:
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