On 29.12.2011, at 13.14, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> Guess I don't quite get namespaces, but we have the following namespace
> configured:
>
> $ doveconf namespace
> namespace {
> hidden = no
> inbox = yes
> list = yes
> location =
> prefix = INBOX.
> separator =
> subscriptions = yes
> type = private
> }
Since separator is empty, it defaults to whatever the mailbox format's internal
separator is.
> But when I try running dsync it complains:
>
> $ sudo -u atmail dsync -u [email protected] mirror
> mdbox:/tmp/janfrodeboks
> dsync(atmail): Error: user [email protected]: Initialization failed:
> namespace configuration error: list=yes requires prefix=INBOX. to end with
> separator dsync(atmail): Fatal: User init failed
With mdbox the internal separator is '/', but it's not valid to have "INBOX."
prefix then (it should be "INBOX/").
> I can fix this by adding "separator = ." to the namespace and dsync is
> happy, but is changing this now safe, or will this affect existing clients?
Since you were using Maildir, which uses '.' as the default separator, setting
this explicitly won't break anything.
