dovecot - Jun 2007 - lazy_expunge and emails from Inbox, doesn't list INBOX in deleted

I'm using the dovecot available on Ubuntu Feisty (1.0rc17) and am trying
to migrate from courier-imap.  A really important feature for me from
courier is that expunged messages end up in Trash where they are removed
after 7 days.

I can get an approximation of this feature as described in the
documentation:

namespace private {
  prefix = INBOX.
  seperator = .
  inbox = yes
}
namespace private {
  prefix = DELETED.
  seperator = .
  location = maildur:~/Maildir/deleted
}

  lazy_expunge = DELETED. DELETED. DELETED.

This all works fine except for messages that were deleted from the
Inbox.  They do end up in the right place (~/Maildir/deleted/cur) but
that location is not listed as a subscribable folder.

Here you can see that deleted messages from my ciontope folder show up,
but not the inbox.

a LIST "DELETED." *
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "DELETED.ciontope"
a OK List completed.

You can't examine the namespace itself:

a EXAMINE DELETED
a NO Unknown namespace.
a EXAMINE DELETED.
a NO Invalid mailbox name

But the folder does exist:

a EXAMINE DELETED.INBOX
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox.
* 4 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1181423860] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 5] Predicted next UID
a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed.

Is there any way to convince dovecot to list DELETED.INBOX so that
clients can see it an subscribe to it?

Roger

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 14:23 -0700, Roger Binns wrote:
> namespace private {
>   prefix = DELETED.
>   seperator = .
>   location = maildur:~/Maildir/deleted
inbox = no
> }
Does that help?
>   lazy_expunge = DELETED. DELETED. DELETED.
Have you tried what happens if you try to expunge mails from
DELETED.mailbox? When I wrote the code I assumed all those namespaces
would be different.

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 14:23 -0700, Roger Binns wrote:
>> namespace private {
>>   prefix = DELETED.
>>   seperator = .
>>   location = maildur:~/Maildir/deleted
> 
> inbox = no
> 
>> }
> 
> Does that help?
Nope.  However I have a disgusting workaround :-)  In Maildir/deleted I
create .INBOX/ and within that directory I then symlink cur/new/tmp to
Maildir/deleted/{cur/new/tmp}.

Everything works fine and the correct content is shown.  I am patiently
waiting for the day when courier style Trash is implemented :-)
> 
>>   lazy_expunge = DELETED. DELETED. DELETED.
> 
> Have you tried what happens if you try to expunge mails from
> DELETED.mailbox? When I wrote the code I assumed all those namespaces
> would be different.
It works fine.

Roger

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On 6/9/2007, Roger Binns (rogerb at rogerbinns.com)
wrote:
> namespace private {
>   prefix = DELETED.
>   seperator = .
>   location = maildur:~/Maildir/deleted
> }
Curious... was this copy/pasted from dovecot -n output? Or was that last 
line misspelling of 'maildur' a typo?

Just one reason why copy/pasted output of dovecot -n is preferred...

-- 

Best regards,

Charles