Typical, send something off and _then_ get the inspiration.

Poking around a bit more, it looks like a peculiarity of my pine setup. I'm testing dovecot on a new server, but my real mail is still being delivered to the old server, also read in that pine.

For testing, I added:

"new server" {dns.name}[],

to folder-collections in my .pinerc, as an addition to my usual setup. That gives me a folder collection I can select, displaying the folders I mentioned, but not the inbox. I now see that the inbox is treated specially.

I tried adding:

{dns.name}inbox

to incoming-folders, and I got a new collection called Incoming-Folders or something with my usual INBOX folder and the inbox on the new server. Neither of the other collection (current or dovecot testing) now lists an inbox, which I think I remember is just the way pine works.

So, I surmise that if I just run a "clean" pine config, without anything relating to my current server and just stuff relating to the testing server, I will be able to see the inbox. But it is too late tonight to test that now.

If it works out, sorry for wasting your brain cells!

Jethro.

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Jethro R Binks wrote:

Hi all,

I've been experimenting with Dovecot; tests with Maildir seemed to work fine. However, now I'm trying with mbox folders, and I'm having a problem where I do not get an INBOX listed using pine. Outlook Express and IMP show it fine.

I snooped part of the session, which appears to go like this (it is slightly garbled, sorry -- I couldn't get rawlog to work by creating dovecot.rawlog in the mail home directory):

00000002 CAPABILITY\r\n

• CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UN 00000003 LIST "" %\r\n"
• LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX
• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "test"
• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) ""/" "Sent Items"
• LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "Drafts" 0000000a OK List .completed..

Pine just displays "test", "Sent Items", and "Drafts". OE happily downloads mail from the inbox I put there, and IMP can see it and read it.

Perhaps there is something there that IMAP protocol people might see. Or else, perhaps there is a known reason why pine does this? Any clues would be appreciated - I browsed the list archives but couldn't spot anything very relevant.

Pine version is very recent - I updated today to 4.56.

Incidentally, is mbox support still broken in the CVS version? Is there an expected timescale for the next release, preferably with mbox fixed again?!

Thanks for any advice.

Jethro.

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