I wrote:

I have installed WP 1.01 on a fresh Zope 2.1.3. On the same RH 6.1 box, I am running the stock imapd, which I can connect to from Netscape's Messenger.

The files/directories under /var/spool/worldpilot are owned by nobody.zope (I start Zope as root).

When I log in, the browser spins after displaying the WP headers. top on the server shows the Zope python process (running as nobody) and an imapd process (running as me) sucking all the CPU, but nothing happens.

If I click on one of the links in the header, I can see the calendar, to-do list, etc., but the mail pane shows a Zope error, with "readonly -- INBOX" at the foot of the traceback.

What am I doing wrong?

"WorldPilot Helpers" <helpers@worldpilot.org> replied:

Hi Tres,

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I have installed WP 1.01 on a fresh Zope 2.1.3. On the same RH 6.1 box, I am running the stock imapd, which I can connect to from Netscape's Messenger.

The files/directories under /var/spool/worldpilot are owned by nobody.zope (I start Zope as root).

Watch out that you don't get fresh created files, that are owned by Zope while zope is starting up and is still running as root. In general this doesn't happen unless some folders would be missing, and are recreated. If you start zope with it's own uid/gid you'll prevent running into this issue.

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When I log in, the browser spins after displaying the WP headers. top on the server shows the Zope python process (running as nobody) and an imapd process (running as me) sucking all the CPU, but nothing happens.

If I click on one of the links in the header, I can see the calendar, to-do list, etc., but the mail pane shows a Zope error, with "readonly -- INBOX" at the foot of the traceback.

What am I doing wrong?

It looks like the imaplib.py your zope is importing hasn't been patched yet. stock imaplib.py has a bug, that results in an infinite loop. patching it should solve your problem.

I replaced the imaplib.py in $ZOPE_HOME/lib/python15/ with the one from the WP tarball before trying this. I tried running python from the command line on my Zope host like this:

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import imaplib box = imaplib.IMAP4() box.login( 'someID', 'xxxPass' ) box.list()

which hangs.

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box.list( '~/Mail' )

doesn't, however, which makes me think that the first one is trying to walk my whole directory tree, building up a list!?! I'm going to try

concerning the readonly INBOX folder using UW IMAP server, I've heard from other users that this appears on some versions of UW IMAP and some not? We're not using UW IMAP (yet), we use Cyrus.

This is actually because the first attempt (the "LIST / *") was still running, and so blocked the second request (the mailbox was locked?) I'm going to try Jo Meder's posted fix (configure WU IMAP to search for mail in a special directory, and symlink the appropriate bits there).

Maybe somebody else using UW IMAP has figured out what the issue is there and how to fix it?

Thanks! Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com