Re: "Can't create mailbox node" with fastmail.fm IMAP <-> IMAP

["Aaron Kaplan" <kaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:54:08AM +0000, Simon Waldman wrote:
> > standard mandrake "imap-2004" package, for use with Thunderbird) with 
> > fastmail.fm.
> 
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:12:51 -0600, "John Goerzen"
<jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> That sounds like UW imap.

  FWIW, this one is known to be not fully
> compliant with the IMAP spec.  Unfortunately, the ways in which it is
> not fully compliant are ones that tend to cause trouble for OfflineIMAP.
> I don't think people lose mail over it, but they do get weird problems
> like you're experiencing from time to time.
> 
> > Subsequent syncs, however, crash with the following:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >      raise RuntimeError, "Repository %s could not create folder %s: %s" 
> > % (self.getname(), foldername, str(result))
> > RuntimeError: Repository Local could not create folder INBOX/Work: 
> > ('NO', ["CREATE failed: Can't create mailbox node 
> > /home/simon/Mail/INBOX/Work: File exists"])
> 
> OK, so the local end is trying to create the folder ~/Mail/INBOX/Work,
> and the local imap server is returning a "File exists" errr.
> 
> > The obvious thing seems to be permissions issue, but /home/simon/Mail 
> > and /home/simon/Mail/INBOX are 700 and the contents of the latter are 
> > 600. I tried setting 777 and 666, and it didn't help.
> 
> Is /home/simon/Mail/INBOX a directory or a file?  If a directory, can
> you show me an ls -la of it?
> 
> If it's a file, that'll be your problem.  UW imap cannot handle
> sub-folders of folders with mail in them, since folders with mail in
> them are handled as files in UW imap.  You will either have to apply a
> nametrans to rename them (you could use something like Mail/INBOX.Work)
> or something else along those lines.
> 
> -- John
> 
>