[wellylug] Maildir

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

Cliff Pratt writes:
>I've got problems with a Maildir directory on Debian. The symptoms are 
>that if I try to access a sub-directory of my INBOX via imap the mail 
>program just spins its wheels waiting. Other sub-dirs are OK. This is 
>not a mail client issue since the same thing happens on Linux and on 
>Winders. Come think of it, the mail client in both cases is TBird.
>
>Has anyone seen similar? I've checked that the directory is accessible 
>by the OS (Linux). The imap server is courier-imap and it has been 
>working flawlessly for some time. Permissions seem OK.

Have you tried a different mail client, then?  Mutt, for example, does
IMAP.  Or there's always the direct approach, using telnet.  My
commands are the stuff in lower case:

    telnet localhost 143 
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    * OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2002 Double Precision,
    Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.
    . login michaelr password
    . OK LOGIN Ok.
    . list "." "*"
    * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.bar"
    * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.foo"
    * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"
    * LIST (\Unmarked \HasChildren) "." "INBOX"
    . OK LIST completed.
    . select inbox
    * FLAGS (\Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Recent)
    * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen)]
    Limited
    * 1 EXISTS
    * 1 RECENT
    * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1132784413] Ok
    . OK [READ-WRITE] Ok
    . fetch 1 rfc822
    ... contents of message ...
    . select "INBOX.bar"
    * FLAGS (\Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Recent)
    * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen)]
    Limited
    * 0 EXISTS
    * 0 RECENT
    * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1132784481] Ok
    . OK [READ-WRITE] Ok

I don't use Courier-IMAP myself, but it looks like a fairly standard
maildir setup; what you may be seeing is some pessimal behaviour from
Thunderbird with large directories, or something.
    -- michael.