[Imap-uw] no folders showing for OS X HFS-mounted boxes

[Mark Crispin]

Have you made any modifications to the source code?  If so, what?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Jim Gottlieb wrote:

> Hi.  We've been running UW imapd (and its associates) for years, custom
> compiled to look for mailboxes in users' home directories, many of
> which are NFS mounted.
>
> It's all worked fine until now, when we moved some users' home
> directories to an OS X server, using its default HFS filesystem.
>
> For those users, their Inbox shows up, but none of their other
> "folders" do, and outgoing messages don't get saved.  I see that
> .mailboxlist is being accessed:
>
> % ls -lu .mailboxlist
> -rw-r--r--   1 jimmy    guest        5373 Sep 12 16:00 .mailboxlist
>
> and running imapd under truss(1), I see it accessing, for example, the
> "Sent Messages" folder, though it didn't actually write the outgoing
> message there like it normally does:
>
> 20317:  stat("/home/jimmy/Mail/Sent Messages", 0xFFBEE078) = 0
> 20317:  open("/home/jimmy/Mail/Sent Messages", O_RDONLY) = 4
> 20317:  read(4, " F r o m   j i m m y @ T".., 2048)     = 2048
> 20317:  close(4)                                        = 0
> 20317:  utime("/home/jimmy/Mail/Sent Messages", 0xFFBEDFF8) = 0
> 20317:  stat("/home/jimmy/Mail/Sent Messages", 0xFFBEE478) = 0
> 20317:  open("/home/jimmy/Mail/Sent Messages", O_RDONLY) = 4
> 20317:  read(4, " F r o m   j i m m y @ T".., 64)       = 64
> 20317:  close(4)                                        = 0
>
> It doesn't seem to be related to the client, as this happens no matter
> which client the user uses.
>
> SquirrelMail, for example, showed:
>
> ERROR: Could not complete request.
> Query: CREATE "outbox"
> Reason Given: CREATE failed: Can't create mailbox node
> /home/jimmy/Mail/outbox: File exists
>
> So imapd didn't see it, but when it went to create it, it found it
> already existed (EEXIST).
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks...
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