At Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:17:40 +0200,
Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> On 4.1.2010, at 20.47, David Abrahams wrote:
>
> > 1. I had to manually create the virtual folder for all my users or
> > they couldn't access their mail at all. Is this fixed in 2.0?
>
> No.
OK, is it considered a bug that should be addressed? IMO there should
at least be a way to tell dovecot to ignore the non-existence of a
particular folder.
> > 2. My users were getting errors when accessing via POP3. The possible
> > meaning of such a virtual folder under POP3 is lost on me, but I
> > had to enable the virtual plugin for that protocol too. I think
> > that should at least be in the documentation, or better yet the
> > requirement should that it be enabled for POP3 should be dropped.
>
> I think you could put the virtual namespace inside protocol imap {} section.
I'm pretty sure I tried that and it didn't work for some reason.
Unfortunately I don't remember the reason, so I could be mistaken.
> > 3. I couldn't get the virtual "conversation view" inbox to show any
> > messages. But maybe that's because of a possible issue I describe
> > below with x-mailbox
> > 5. The "all" virtual mailbox would only show 89 messages. I switched
> > it to be a mirror of my "archive" mailbox and the number started to
> > look more reasonable. This could be the "lots of mailboxes" bug
> > describe in
> > http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2009-December/000145.html
>
> "lots of mailboxes" should cause error to be logged.
What does the error look like? I could search my logs for it.
> > 7. I tried to create an IMAP search, rather than a virtual folder,
> > that looked for x-mailbox INBOX header like the virtual folder
> > does. It too came up empty. It doesn't exactly surprise me
> > because I don't see an x-mailbox header in any of these messages.
>
> x-mailbox doesn't use a header, it uses the actual mailbox name
> where the message exists.
Oh... what if the message exists in multiple mailboxes? Typically
anything in INBOX can also be found in my "all mail" archive.
I guess that means it's crucial that, whatever else I do, INBOX should
be part of the "all mail" virtual folder in order for this to work. I
didn't quite understand that before, and I think it's important to
have a description somewhere of how x-mailbox works that would help me
to get to that conclusion. Certainly the existing description at
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual that it represents the
"original" mailbox isn't adequate for that purpose.
> > Lastly, I want to report that for me, the speed of these IMAP searches
> > doesn't begin to approach what I can do with mairix if I want a
> > message's entire thread. I'm happy to use mairix, although it would
> > be nicer not to duplicate that capability if it's already in the
> > server. But it needs to be fast. Is there something I can do to make
> > it go faster?
>
> How slow is it? How many messages do you have? I think it should be pretty
> fast.
150523 messages in 2.6G
> Anyway, dovecot -n output and contents of dovecot-virtual file could help
> figuring out what your problem is.
Having got the x-mailbox insight (I think---thanks), I have tried
the following combinations:
# ~/Maildir/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual
INBOX
zz_archive*
inthread refs x-mailbox inbox
shows only messages in INBOX. THe archives are actually in folders
like zz_archive.2010.01
---
# ~/Maildir/virtual/all/dovecot-virtual
INBOX
zz_archive*
all
# ~/Maildir/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual
virtual.all
inthread refs x-mailbox inbox
shows only messages in INBOX
---
# ~/Maildir/virtual/all/dovecot-virtual
*
all
# ~/Maildir/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual
virtual.all
inthread refs x-mailbox inbox
Appears to hang
---
# ~/Maildir/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual
INBOX
zz_archive.*.*
inthread refs x-mailbox inbox
Appears to hang. For example, the little pie chart in Apple Mail that
shows mailbox scanning progress is stopped. Wanderlust gets totally
stuck.
---
# 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE amd64
protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s
listen: 64.156.193.20
ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/private/network_solutions_ca.crt
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/www.boostpro.com.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/www.boostpro.com.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_gid: 0
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): virtual autocreate
mail_plugins(imap): virtual autocreate
mail_plugins(pop3): virtual
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
namespace:
type: private
inbox: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: .
prefix: virtual.
location: virtual:~/Maildir/virtual
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
lda:
postmaster_address: postmas...@boost-consulting.com
mail_plugins: sieve virtual
sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail
auth default:
master_user_separator: *
verbose: yes
debug: yes
debug_passwords: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/master.passwd
master: yes
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
mode: 438
plugin:
fts: squat lucene
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