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On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:50:19 +0100
From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizol...@free.fr>
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Can't access maildir with dovecot
I'm a total newbie regarding imap servers. I'm trying to set up a
Offlineimap/dovecot/Gnus system and Gnus complains that it cannot access
the maildir... Here is my setup, put together by copying stuff from
around the web without any prior knowledge of these tools...
* Offlineimap is setup to use the $HOME/Maildir-free/, using
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preauthtunnel = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o
mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir-free
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in the local maildir part of ~/.offlineimaprc.
* The Maildir-free maildir has been correctly (I think) populated
with a single "General" folder.
/home/wilk/Maildir-free:
total used in directory 52 available 5502852
drwxrwxr-x 6 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:10 .
drwx------ 240 wilk wilk 20480 oct. 23 15:06 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:09 cur
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wilk wilk 348 oct. 23 11:10 dovecot.index.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wilk wilk 51 oct. 23 11:10 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wilk wilk 8 oct. 23 11:09 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r-- 1 wilk wilk 0 oct. 23 11:09 dovecot-uidvalidity.5629f967
drwx------ 6 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:16 General
Maildir++ prefixes all Mailboxes with ".", hence it should read: .General
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wilk wilk 0 oct. 23 11:09 maildirfolder
drwxrwxr-x 2 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:09 new
drwxrwxr-x 2 wilk wilk 4096 oct. 23 11:09 tmp
* dovecot is not setup to start as a server (no script in /etc/rc*.d/)
and I didn't configure anything in any /etc/dovecot/ file (maybe I
should have ?)
* Gnus is supposed to access the maildir as an IMAP server through
dovecot: I have:
(nnimap "FreeOffline"
(nnimap-stream shell)
(nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o
mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir-free")
in gnus-secondary-select-methods
* I try to access this maildir as follows
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:/home/wilk/Maildir-free/
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE
SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN
CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE BINARY MOVE] Logged in as wilk
* LIST "" *
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." INBOX
* OK List completed.
As you can see, the "General" folder doesn't appear, and there is a
mention of "INBOX" even though there is no folder under this name (but I
guess that's a default for any IMAP system). Accordingly, Gnus only
displays a INBOX folder when browsing the FreeOffline IMAP server, and
complains that it contains no message.
What's the correct way to setup dovecot? Thanks for your help.
Julien.
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Steffen Kaiser
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