Re: OfflineIMAP and KMail

["David L. Emerson" <demerson3x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yeah, that very thing frustrated me, too. I couldn't get dovecot to look 
in the right places for my mail folders -- heaven knows why. Maybe the 
dovecot mailing list would be a good place to ask.
Anyway, I never got dovecot to behave properly, so I went with the 
offlineimap nametrans, which has worked great.

My custom offlineimap.py looks something like this:

import re
dovecot_kmail_re = re.compile('^\.?(inbox[./])?', re.IGNORECASE)

def fix_dovecot_kmail (folder_nm):
  if folder_nm.lower() in ('inbox', '.inbox', '.'):
    return '.'
  return dovecot_kmail_re.sub('.INBOX.', folder_nm, 1)

And of course as I mentioned, my ~/.offlineimaprc contains
pythonfile = /path/to/offlineimap/config/offlineimap.py
# and for each account's remoterepository section,
nametrans = fix_dovecot_kmail

What the first "return" line does is map the inbox to the maildir (not 
to a subdirectory of it). So if the maildir is /home/david/mail, 
then /home/david/mail will contain {cur,new,tmp} folders for inbox: 
so /home/david/mail/. is my inbox folder.

All other folders are made subfolders of the inbox by the compiled re 
which is run by the second "return". They thus are named, 
e.g., /home/david/mail/.INBOX.Subfolder/cur etc. So that's how my 
mailboxes are set up ... not the best design (I don't really like it, 
anyway) but dovecot seems to like it, so I guess that's what's 
important.

Of course, the trouble is that when offlineimap first creates an 
account, it receives the foldername '.' from the nametrans, attempts to 
call mkdir('.') and crashes (line 100 of Maildir.py) So I patched 
offlineimap so it would never call mkdir on '.' (which is incidentally 
why I'm still using 5.99.4)

Sorry I can't really help you solve the real problem, which is dovecot 
behaving badly, but maybe my workaround will work for you too. Good 
luck!

~David.



P.S. I've never had an issue before with those =20 things at the end of 
*my* messages. I've seen them on other people's messages many times. 
Dunno what made them suddenly appear ... hopefully they will disappear 
just as quickly!



On Saturday 05 July 2008 6:29 am, Josh Rickmar wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I tried to get this fixed using your recommendations, but its not
> quite working the way I expected it to. :)
> 
> [...]