You didn't mention it, but it looks like the selected mailbox is in the
unsupported mx format. There is a bug in the driver for that format when
copying to INBOX in a different format (and yes, a /var/spool/mail file is
a "traditional UNIX mailbox").
The following patch to imap-2007/src/osdep/unix will fix it:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** unix/mx.c 2007/10/11 21:12:01 1.28
--- unix/mx.c 2008/01/07 04:37:15
***************
*** 183,188 ****
--- 183,189 ----
((sbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG)) return T;
errno = NIL; /* directory but not mx */
}
+ else if (!compare_cstring (name,"INBOX")) errno = NIL;
return NIL;
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I must emphasize that mx is UNSUPPORTED and NOT RECOMMENDED. It was an
experiment nearly 12 years ago that proved to a complete failure. There
are numerous known bugs in mx format. The only reason why mx support has
not been removed is to allow existing mx format mailboxes to continue to
work.
mix is the current recommended alternative mailbox format.
You should just delete your /etc/c-client.cf file entirely.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Harry Saal wrote:
Thanks for the attempt to sort this out.
Here is the sequence of IMAP messages (from Wireshark) when I tried to copy a
message from a Draft folder to Inbox.
* 1 FETCH (UID 4 FLAGS (\Draft))..370 OK UID FETCH completed..
371 IDLE
+ Waiting for DONE..
DONE..
371 OK IDLE completed
373 uid copy 4 "INBOX"
* OK [TRYCREATE] Must create mailbox before copy
373 NO [TRYCREATE] UID COPY failed: No such destination mailbox
I don't think I have a "traditional UNIX mailbox", e.g. my INBOX mail is kept
(and left) in /var/spool/mail/harry
I downloaded and built from UW source. I changed only line in env_unix.c,
namely to
static char *mailsubdir = ".imapmail" /* stores all mail folders under
/home/username/.imapmail */
I built using make lnp SSLTYPE=none. Here is my /etc/c-client.cf file:
I accept the risk
set allow-user-config T
# set new-folder-format mx
# set empty-folder-format mx
This looks right to me.
Thanks in advance for any advice, Mark.
Mark Crispin wrote:
I verified that COPY to traditional UNIX mailbox format INBOX works on my
system. Furthermore, a TRYCREATE should *never* happen with INBOX. This
suggests that the destination mailbox name is something other than INBOX.
Can you get a protocol telemetry log from your client? There should be a
warning message prior to the command reading:
* OK [TRYCREATE] Must create mailbox before copy
Do you see that?
What IMAP command is immediately before the COPY? It should be something
like
abc123 UID COPY ##### INBOX
where "abc123" is some arbitrary text and ##### is a number. What is after
the number? Is it INBOX?
Is your copy of imap-2007 the original, unmodified version from UW? If
not, please try the original, unmodified version:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z
Do you have an /etc/c-client.cf file on your system? If so, what are its
contents; and if you did not create that file and have no notion of why it
is there or what it does, try deleting it.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Harry Saal wrote:
I just rebuilt my UW IMAP mailserver on a Fedora Core 8 system. I am using
Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 as a client.
I receive mail into my INBOX , can read it, delete it, etc. But I can not
MOVE or COPY a message from some other folder into my INBOX. This used to
work using imap-2004d but no longer does. The error message is
"[TRYCREATE] UID COPY failed: No such destination mailbox." The mailbox
does exist, e.g. as /var/spool/mail/harry, owner is harry:mail,
permissions are 660. I even tried permissions of 666 but this did not
solve the problem.
I've spent hours researching this, but am at a loss as to how to proceed.
Any suggestions?
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