We just changed from UW imap last night and one of our bigger problems
right now is that the ~/mail/ compatibility namespace doesn't seem to
work. dovecot 2.0.8
Dec 15 12:01:52 zen.engr.oregonstate.edu dovecot: [ID 583609
mail.warning] imap(tom2): Warning: Subscriptions file
/nfs/rack/u4/t/tom2/mail/.subscriptions: Ignoring invalid entry:
~/mail/foo1/folder1
Dec 15 12:01:52 zen.engr.oregonstate.edu dovecot: [ID 583609
mail.warning] imap(tom2): Warning: Subscriptions file
/nfs/rack/u4/t/tom2/mail/.subscriptions: Ignoring invalid entry:
~tom2/mail/foo1/folder1
from .subscriptions:
~/mail/foo1/folder1
~tom2/mail/foo1/folder1
in 10-mail.conf
namespace {
type = private
separator = /
prefix =
inbox = yes
}
# for backwards compatibility:
namespace {
type = private
separator = /
prefix = mail/
hidden = yes
list = no
}
namespace {
type = private
separator = /
prefix = ~/mail/
hidden = yes
list = no
}
namespace {
type = private
separator = /
prefix = ~%u/mail/
hidden = yes
list = no
}
What's funny is that it appears to work with a preauthenticated session
or by using openssl to connect to port 993.
1 list "~/mail/" *
* LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/testfolder"
* LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/Trash"
* LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/Sent"
* LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "~/mail/foo1"
* LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/foo1/folder1"
* LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "~/mail/foo2"
* LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "~/mail/foo2/folder1"
1 OK List completed.
1 select ~/mail/foo2/folder1
* OK [CLOSED] Previous mailbox closed.
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)]
Flags permitted.
* 1 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1274985137] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest
1 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
We're seeing this with at least thunderbird and outlook.
thank you
Tom Lieuallen
Oregon State University
