my web host provides courier-imap service to me on a openbsd box and recently i decided to take advantage of it. what i found was that i was unable to delete any directories under trash. i brought it up to them and here is what came out of it.
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Here comes a patch to be included in your Courier IMAP 1.7.2 port. courier-imap cannot delete (empty) folders because it uses unlink() on Maildirs which are not emty (they contain cur/, tmp/ new/). courier-imap checks for a return code EISDIR on unlink and then recurses down to this dir (delsubdir() in maildir/maildirdelfolder.c).
On OpenBSD (3.4-current, at least) unlink returns EPERM, not EISDIR if unlink() is used on a directory.
This small patch changes the folder deletion routine accordingly.
Regards, Marc
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--- maildir/maildirdelfolder.c.orig Mon Jan 26 16:24:17 2004 +++ maildir/maildirdelfolder.c Mon Jan 26 16:27:25 2004 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
strcat(strcat(strcpy(p, s), "/"), de->d_name);
- if (unlink(p) && errno == EISDIR)
+ if (unlink(p) && errno == EPERM)
{
if (delsubdir(p))
{--------------090009000502030601020708--
hope this helps any.
- Frank
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