[ILUG] courier & maildir --- ACL errors and nothing listing

[Brendan Kehoe]

I'm trying to get the Courier imapd (http://www.inter7.com/courierimap.html) 
to let me use my maildir-format mail folders remotely.  My main motivation is 
to make kmail and mutt be able to work from different hosts with SSL.

Try as I might, I can't get it to list any of the folders, and direct clicks 
on the single 'inbox' folder gets me: "Unable to open folder INBOX. The 
server replied: Unable to open this mailbox.".

On the host, /var/log/mail.err has

	Nov  5 10:57:26 homer imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for INBOX.drafts.index: 
No such file or directory

and a variety of others, most for the '.index', '.index.ids', '.index.sorted' 
files that kmail uses.  Though there are a couple for 'INBOX.foo.directory' 
for which a '.foo.directory' does exist in the Maildir.

I've verified that /etc/courier/imapd has 'MAILDIRPATH=Maildir' in it, and I 
even tried it in '/etc/courier/imapd-ssl' just to make sure that there's not 
a bug related to config file usage.  (The fact that it's giving the ACL 
errors for files in my Maildir are a decent enough sign that it's looking in 
the right place.)

Anyway, on the bet that others on this list run systems with similar setups, 
whether qmail or something else maildir-esque, I wonder if there's a step I'm 
missing that's not obvious for some reason.  (And nothing in google or Usenet 
archives to answer it either.)  Before I check out the sources and start 
digging, I thought I'd ping you folks first.

Thanks for any bits,
B

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Brendan Kehoe                                               brendan at zen.org

http://www.zen.org/~brendan/