I am running dovecot 1.2.16 and not able to figure out an error
that happens whenever I select the root of a virtual mailbox tree.
At the moment I have a simple maildir store, accessed via IMAP, and
have successfully added a virtual fs namespace with two subdirectories.
I have created dovecot-virtual entries in the subdirs and they are
working fine; they show the expected messages, etc.
My problem is with the top-level virtual directory. If I happen
to select it in Thunderbird (Eudora, actually), I receive a popup
"The current command did not succeed. The mail server
responded:Mailbox doesn't exist: Mobile."
It also fails in the same way during search, which interrupts it and
makes other client operations fail.
I have tried placing a dovecot-virtual rule in the directory, leaving
the directory empty, moving it in or out of the maildir tree, tweaking
namespace and INDEX/LAYOUT options all with the same result - the
subdirs are fine, the virtual root fails.
I must be missing something obvious. Clue, please? Thanks!
Relevant configuration:
[~] # dovecot -n
# 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.33.2 i686 ext4
...
mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_plugins: fts fts_squat virtual
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
inbox: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: Mobile/
location: virtual:%h/Mobile:INDEX=MEMORY
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
...
[~] # ls -lsaR /var/MailRoot/domains/<d>/<u>/Maildir/Mobile
Mobile:
4 drwx------ 4 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 30 16:06 ./
20 drwx------ 243 xmail xmail 20480 Nov 30 20:55 ../
4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 19 Nov 26 17:18
.virtual-subscriptions
4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 Mail1/
4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 Mail2/
4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 14 Nov 30 16:06
dovecot-virtual
Mobile/Mail1:
4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 ./
4 drwx------ 4 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 30 16:06 ../
4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 27 Nov 26 17:16
dovecot-virtual
Mobile/Mail2:
4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 ./
4 drwx------ 4 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 30 16:06 ../
4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 22 Nov 26 17:16
dovecot-virtual
[~] #
