dovecot-0.99.10.x or Mozilla label bug?
by Rick Johnson
I recently switched from UW-IMAP to Dovecot IMAP and from mbox to
Maildir directories on a server. On a different server, I've been using
Dovecot with mbox for some time and recently converted it to Maildir as
well. In both cases, I'm using Mozilla or Thunderbird as my client.
It appears that after switching from mbox where label flags are stored
in headers to Maildir where the flags are stored at the tail of the
filename, that message labels were "Broken". Message labels appear to be
reverse associated with letters. Label 1 being f, Label 2 - d, 3 - c, 4
- b, and 5 - a.
How comes the problem. If I set one label and leave it, there's no
problem. However if I change a label on a message, or attempt to remove
it, it appears that dovecot isn't removing the previous label flag, but
instead adding a new label. If I'm switching from 5 to 3, it appends c
to a, and the client won't notice the difference. However, I can't
switch back from 3 to 5, since the flags are stored alphabetically, and
the previous flags aren't removed. Instead - the old label sticks. I can
apply all labels, and all "characters" remain in the filename, however
the "highest" in the alphabet is what gets displayed, and I end up with
a trailer on the file of "abcdf".
Proper behavior would be to remove the previous label flag before
applying a new one. This didn't appear to be a problem in the mbox
version since the labels were stored in the headers under X-Label or
something like that.
Interestingly, Evolution 1.4 is able to clear the labels, but only does
so after you exit the client.
This happens under 0.99.10-6 (core 1) and 0.99.10.4-1 (devel).
Bugzilla time? I filed 114230 for Dovecot, but I'm not 100% sure if this
is a Dovecot or Mozilla issue. I'm leaning toward Dovecot not clearing
previous labels, since the mail client generally doesn't "care" what
backend format you're using and this wasn't a problem with mbox
formatted msgs.
-Rick
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Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson(a)medata.com
Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home)
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20 years, 4 months
Anti-virus Programs
by Carter J. Castor
I know that the number and popularity of viruses for Linux is extremely
lower than Windoze; however, I am on a university network that has
viruses floating around like an AIDS convention so I would like to have
some sort of anti-virus program running in the background. The ones I
find are either a) commercial apps b) exclusively for e-mail c) open
source ones that don't look very complete. What do you guys use for
non-email based virus scanners?
20 years, 4 months
RE: HD Noise
by Ow Mun Heng
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@mindspring.com]
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Carter J. Castor wrote:
> >
> > > I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very
> > > I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm
> clock so it sits
>
> there are cheaper alarm clocks than a dell inspiron. :-)
>
I use my HP.. :)
20 years, 4 months
OT: Creating CD from playlist
by Andrew Robinson
Is there a way in existence to use a playlist to create a cd of mp3
files? Looking at an m3u file, it should not be a difficult effort to
write a script to create a mkisofs command from the m3u file. Before I
undertook this effort, I was wondering if someone had already solved the
problem. Note: I'm not looking to convert the mp3 files to wav files to
create a music cd. I want to create an mp3 cd.
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
20 years, 4 months
smb-shares
by Sturla Holm Hansen
Someone made me aware that I had forgot to set the correct date after
reinstalling, so I'm posting it again.... Sorry
I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares, either on
another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then
I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again.
Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one
of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things
seem to be working fine....
Any ideas?
Sturla
20 years, 4 months
Upgrading Production line PCs
by Chadley Wilson
Very a jolly big Hello to all of you,
I have potentially good news,
My bosses and I have decide to give Xplease a huge finger.
We are going to upgrade all of our bench PCs (28 of them) to 2 gig
celerons for the production line.
We want to load .... YES! FC2 or 1 if 2 isnt ready by then,
We have one problem I have been working on but no-one seems to know how
to fix,
Our in house app needs client connectivity to the ms-sql database.
mmmm!
Toughest thing for me yet.
All I can say is I really hope it will work.
Have a smashing crashing and bug squishing weekend
see ya all on monday.
Cheers
Chadley
20 years, 4 months
RE: USB Devices not working
by Shawn Iverson
> From: Fritz Whittington [mailto:f.whittington@att.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:46 AM
>
>
> >> Also, once you are have troubleshooted your issue, always manually
> >> unmount
> >> your device before unplugging it, especially if you are
> performing write
> >> operations to it.
> >>
> How very important! If you don't believe that delayed-write is
> working, try mounting a USB fs (one that uses a solid-state
> memory, like
> Compact Flash or Smart Media), copying several MB of files
> from it to a
> hdd, and note how slow it is. Then delete all the files on the USB
> device, and copy all the files back. The copy is done almost in an
> instant! But then, when you unmount it, you can see it take several
> seconds to actually write the files from cache. So if you
> yanked it out
> without unmounting it, you wouldn't really have anything.
>
It would be nice if usb devices such as this could be forced to write their
data ASAP instead of waiting for a umount (despite a performance lag). It
is so tempting for many people that I know to just go ahead and unplug. I
am going to do some research on this.
20 years, 4 months
OT: Belkin wireless products
by Andrew Robinson
In today's Sunday newspaper, Office Max is advertising some very good
rebate deals on Belkin 802.11g wireless products. (Actually they say
54G. Is there a difference?) I was looking at the wireless router and
the wireless notebook card. The PC card would go in a Dell Latittude
laptop that mostly runs Windows 2000, but on which I also run Linux
(Redhat 9 currently, though I plan to update to Fedora Core 1). I know
very little about the relative merits of different vendors' wireless
products. So I was hoping to get some opinions from folks on this list.
Is the Belkin router and adapter worth having? Will the laptop adapter
work with Linux? Any thing else I should know about them?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
20 years, 4 months
modem & soundcard detection
by Edward Diamond
I have a ASUS P4PE motherboard with onboard sound production via an 'ADI
AD1980 AC '97 audio CODEC', and an intel 536EP modem in PCI slot 2.
After installing Fedora Core 1, I found that neither the soundcard nor
modem were detected. I used the system tools to try and detect the
modem, but no luck. Both devices work correctly under WIN2k. Has
anyone got some suggestions to get these devices working? TIA
Edward (Fedora Newbie)
20 years, 4 months
