Problem fixed! I applied your patch and rebuilt the system. The problem
is resolved! I can't thank you enough, Mark.
And I promise to look into converting from mx to mix. Do you have any
suggested articles or posts that I can read on making the transition?
Mark Crispin wrote:
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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