Missing folders in squirrelmail

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I just setup Squirrelmail on OS X server 10.3, using the out of the box config. Did a quick trip to the command line tool to config the defaults and set the macosx standard config.

Problem is — I get error messages when it starts up, telling me it does not have privileges to the directory to create special folders. Worse, if I disable the auto create special folders feature, it shows only the inbox.

I’ve verified on three different clients that the other folder are there and contain data, but cannot get squirrelmail to see them. Any suggestions?

– Matt

[Anonymous]

I’ve tried everything…

First, I updated the server information, set my SMTP and IMAP settings for authentication, then moved on to folder names (which I originally left alone) and finally set the defaults for osxserver on the screens where it offered you the chance to designate your server type.

Interesting item: I can see the folders in Terminal…

-rw——- 2 cyrus mail 709 10 Apr 19:44 1752.
drwx—— 662 cyrus mail 22508 10 Apr 19:50 Deleted Messages
drwx—— 5 cyrus mail 170 10 Apr 19:50 Drafts
drwx—— 6 cyrus mail 204 10 Apr 19:50 Junk
drwx—— 5 cyrus mail 170 10 Apr 19:50 Sent Items
drwx—— 18 cyrus mail 612 10 Apr 19:50 Sent Messages
-rw——- 1 cyrus mail 652 10 Apr 19:50 cyrus.cache
-rw——- 1 cyrus mail 195 8 Apr 09:41 cyrus.header
-rw——- 1 cyrus mail 136 10 Apr 19:50 cyrus.index

But none of them appear in the web client. OS X Mail shows only three folders….so I am not sure how the mapping behind the scenes works.

Here are the folder config options:

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
———————————————————
Folder Defaults
1. Default Folder Prefix : INBOX/
2. Show Folder Prefix Option : false
3. Trash Folder : Deleted Messages
4. Sent Folder : Sent Messages
5. Drafts Folder : Drafts
6. By default, move to trash : true
7. By default, move to sent : true
8. By default, save as draft : true
9. List Special Folders First : true
10. Show Special Folders Color : true
11. Auto Expunge : true
12. Default Sub. of INBOX : true
13. Show ‘Contain Sub.’ Option : false
14. Default Unseen Notify : 2
15. Default Unseen Type : 1
16. Auto Create Special Folders : false
17. Folder Delete Bypasses Trash : false
18. Enable /NoSelect folder fix : false

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks, Matt.

[Anonymous]

That’s the problem — not only do they not show in the left nav, the folders page says there are no folders to subscribe/unsubscribe to!

– Matt

[Anonymous]

Further update to this —

I checked the mail store locations, and I can see the folders and contents, and verified with three other IMAP clients (including one on windows) and indeed, the folders are all there. So this definitely is some sort of SquirrelMail issue.

Any ideas would be most appreciated!

– Matt

[Anonymous]

This is still broken in Tiger Server!

I checked the configs, everything “should” be working.

Any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Turns out it was a corrupted preference file.

Deleting the preference file brought everything right back.

– Matt

[Anonymous]

Just to be clear..

The prefs file in the user’s data directory…

so,

/var/db/squirrelmail/data

– Matt

[sam]

do I have to delete all the pref files? or just the user.pref file? I am running os x tiger server.

thanx

[Author]

Posts