Dovecot 1beta8 + kqueue = no mailbox folders in Horde/Imp menu

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Mon May 15 13:54:08 UTC 2006


[adding Vaclav Haisman, v.haisman at sh.cvut.cz, who is responsible
 for the kqueue fix for BSD in dovecot 1.0.b8]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:21:02PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> 
> [ horde and dovecot maintainers cc'ed ]
> 
> On Mon, 15 May 2006 08:02:15 -0500
> "Zimmerman, Eric" <Zimmerman.Eric at con-way.com> wrote:
> 
> > Last night I updated dovecot to beta8 via ports and, based on the
> > ports notes, added kqueue support via make config.  Email via
> > thunderbird worked fine but this morning when I logged into my mail
> > via Horde/Imp, I could no longer see any of my mailboxes in the left
> > menu in Horde. Horde still saw my mail and folders via the main Horde
> > page, so it is talking to Dovecot properly it seems
> > 
> > After playing around with some settings and verifying config files, I
> > tried recompiling dovecot beta8 without kqueue support.  After I did
> > this and restarted dovecot everything worked as expected and I see my
> > mailboxes again in the left hand menu
> > 
> > So is this a dovecot issue, kqueue issue or Horde issue?
> 
> Anyway it isn't a local (port) problem and it should be reported
> upstream; please coordinate with the maintainers of horde / dovecot to
> analyze the issue and give proper debug info to the developers
> responsible.
> 
> > This was my first time playing with the kqueue option so I don't even
> > know if I need it. From the port commit notes it sounded like kqueue
> > was a good thing though. =)
> 
> I won't backup the update since it fixes a security problem but I'm
> willing to commit fast a patch if I someone sends me one (I don't use
> dovecot).
> 
> The commit message is based on the PR content which is based on what
> the dovecot developers said.
> 
> 
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