imap_root when using maildir++ depot and local user login problem

[Jeff Nichols]

Hi, the problem with courier-imap (and similar IMAP servers) is known. 
I've included part of some mails that went to the list a little earlier.

I would also like to ask Thomas solving the courier-imap problems a top 
priority.  I looked into hacking it myself, but as other people have 
also experienced (and as he mentions below), the imap_root stuff goes 
pretty deep, and I would rather Thomas handle this himself.. or at least 
someone with much more knowledge of the codebase than myself.

Jeff



2005/10/13, Joshua Layne <joshua at willowisp.net>:

 >> Currently you have to change this in a few places, including the skin.
 >>
 >> I will submit a change (later tonight, still at work) so that this 
prefix has to only be set once in the main config file.
 >>
 >> Also, I believe that it is possible to retrive this prefix from imap 
- I know thunderbird allows you to set it, but also defaults to a "allow 
server override" for the folder prefix.
 >>
 >> Does anyone know further details on this?


Yes, you can get the prefic from the IMAP server. This is done with
the function iil_C_NameSpace() in program/lib/imap.inc

In the latest CVS version, this is done (see rcube_imap.inc) but it
does not set the 'imap_root' property because this would mean that the
main INBOX folder is not accessible from RoundCube. I have to change
the behavior of that 'imap_root' (which is quite deep) setting first.
To fix this properly will take a wile...

Thomas



Mattias Wikstrom wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just installed RoundCube and everything seems to work fine except for 
> two things:
> 
> 1. I use bincimap as my imap server with the maildir++ depot (same as 
> courier-imap), which stores all the users folders in the INBOX.
> 
> If I leave imap_root empty in the config (as is the default) all the 
> folders are shown as being under the INBOX, but the Sent, Drafts and 
> Trash folders are not assigned icons.
> 
> If I change imap_root to "INBOX/" the folders are shown with correct 
> icons but the Inbox disappears from the list and cannot be selected!
> 
> 2. I use qmail with vmailmgr as my MTA. I can login fine with virtual 
> users, but local users seem to generate some kind of loop and I cannot 
> login, it just loads forever. If I check my imap servers logs it shows 
> that the authentification was successful, RoundCubes logs show no errors 
> and neither do the apache-logs.
> 
> I also have SquirrelMail installed and it works flawlessly as do 
> stand-alone clients like Mozilla Thunderbird.
> 
> I realise that RoundCube is still in its infancy but the project looks 
> very promising already! Alas I'm not a programmer, so I cannot 
> contribute to the project (except with bug-reports ;).
> 
> Best regards!
> 
> Mattias Wikstrom
> 
>