[imp] SOLVED: unable to save sent message -- NAMESPACE problem

[Mark G. Thomas]

Hi,

After a long overdue upgrade from IMP-4.2 to IMP-4.3.9, I found that 
creating Sent/Drafts/Trash/Spam folders via the Personal Info
and Server and Folder Information Options would fail with permission
denied messages from Cyrus.

I confirmed that Cyrus is advertising my namespace correctly:
  . login XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
  . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID LOGINDISABLED ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE SCAN IDLE URLAUTH] User logged in
  . namespace
  * NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) (("user." ".")) (("" "."))
  . OK Completed

I tried changing prefs.php to "INBOX.Sent" instead of "Sent", but then 
the folder being created ended up being INBOX.INBOX.Sent. This was
not an acceptable solution.

After much experimentation with different IMP versions, I determined 
that this specific change from 4.3.4 to 4.3.5 introduced my problem:

    [root at ziggy imp-4.3.4]# diff lib/IMP.php ../imp-4.3.5/lib/
    131c131
    <  * $Horde: imp/lib/IMP.php,v 1.449.4.125 2009/04/07 04:56:37 slusarz Exp $
    ---
    >  * $Horde: imp/lib/IMP.php,v 1.449.4.127 2009/08/05 03:56:37 slusarz Exp $
    1350c1350
    <         $ns_info = IMP::getNamespace($mbox, false);
    ---
    >         $ns_info = IMP::getNamespace($mbox);

Changing the line back to "$ns_info = IMP::getNamespace($mbox, false);" in
4.3.5 (and 4.3.9) restores the functioning behavior, Sent and other folders
are correctly generated from the Options menus and when a user composes a
message but is lacking their designated Sent folder. 

I do not know what other ramifications this might have nor why the 
change in 4.3.5.  I am surprised that this hasn't broken things for 
more people since I'm using a common setup with Cyrus. I see other
namespace related changes related to INBOX namespace, so maybe one 
of the other changes was supposed to fix this behavior, but at least 
in my case does not.

I hope this might be helpful to others. It took me a long time to isolate.
I wish I knew how it was really supposed to work and why it was changed.

Mark



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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:32:49 -0500
From: "Mark G. Thomas" <Mark at Misty.com>
To: imp at lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] unable to save sent message
X-Envelope-From: imp-bounces at lists.horde.org

Hi,

> Quoting Satish Alwani <satish at spherelinx.com>:
....
> >  >? The folder "Sent" was not created. This is what the server said:
> >  > Client tried to access nonexistent namespace. (Mailbox name should
> >  > probably be prefixed with: INBOX.)
> >  >
> >  >? Message sent successfully, but not saved to Sent

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 01:59:48PM -0600, Rick Romero wrote:
> You need to change your imp/config/prefs.php to 'INBOX.Sent' instead of
> just 'Sent'.
> 
>   Or edit your identity under Personal Options, and reselect your Sent
> mail folder.
> 
>   Rick

I ran into this same problem. The default Sent folder seems to now (4.3.9)
be ".Sent", and with my cyrus back-end and not using alternate namespace, 
this is outside the user's namespace.

This behavior seems to have changed since 4.2, the version I'm upgrading from.

I tried as per above changing prefs.php to 'INBOX.Sent', but then this
intruduces a separate INBOX hierarchy to the user's folder view.

Is there some way to get the old behavior back? At least with my setup
4.2 just plain worked, and now with 4.3.9, I can't get it to drop the
leading period it's passing to the IMAP server from from .Sent unless 
I specify INBOX.Sent in prefs.php, which causes other problems here.

Mark


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