On 22.1.2012, at 15.55, Michael Makuch wrote: > I use dovecot locally for internal only access to my email archives, of which > I have many gigs of email archives. Over time I end up subscribing to a > couple dozen different IMAP email folders. Problem is that periodically my > list of subscribed folders get zapped to none, and I have to go and > re-subscribe to a dozen or two folders again. > > Anyone seen this happen? It looks like the list of subscribed folders is here > ~/Mail/.subscriptions and I can see in my daily backup that it reflects what > appears in TBird. What might be zapping it? I use multiple email clients > simultaneously on different hosts. (IOW I leave them open) Is this a problem? > Does dovecot manage that in some way? Or is that my problem? I don't think > this is the problem since this only occurs like a few times per year. If it > were the problem I'd expect it to occur much more frequently.
No idea, but you could prevent it by making sure that it can't change the subscriptions: mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:CONTROL=~/mail-subscriptions mkdir ~/mail-subscriptions mv ~/Mail/.subscriptions ~/mail-subscriptions chmod 0500 ~/mail-subscriptions I thought Dovecot would also log an error if client tried to change subscriptions, but looks like it doesn't. It only returns failure to client: a unsubscribe INBOX a NO [NOPERM] No permission to modify subscriptions
