Re: Dav

Ken Murchison <[email protected]> Wed, 13 May 2026 13:19:55 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Organization Fastmail US LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I can't remember when the user.<user>.#sieve mailboxes were introduced=20
for Sieve, but if they are used in 3.8, you will still have <user>.dav=20
files which index the contents of the #sieve mailbox.


On 5/13/26 1:11 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> On 2026-05-13 10:51, =D0=94=D0=B8=D0=BB=D1=8F=D0=BD =D0=9F=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=
=B0=D1=83=D0=B7=D0=BE=D0=B2 wrote:
>> Hello Per,
>>
>> I cannot answer this question.=C2=A0 Somebody who does not want to have=
=20
>> <user>.dav files, has to investigate this and propose a patch.=C2=A0 So=
=20
>> far you seem the be the only one, who does not want to have=20
>> <user>.dav files.
>>
>> Next step would be to propose patch for including upstream.=C2=A0 In=20
>> whatever way this patch is made, it is unpredictable, if it will be=20
>> included.=C2=A0 So you keep the patch for yourself, and apply it, when y=
ou=20
>> do again a version jump.
>
> No, we are not going to make any patches, prefer to use official=20
> releases.
>
> We can live with the current state of things, I just wanted to get rid=20
> of everything unecessary. Funny though that you are the only one=20
> answering.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Per
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Per olof Ljungmark <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: Info <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Dav
>> Date: 13/05/26 09:23:31
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2026-05-12 22:07, =D0=94=D0=B8=D0=BB=D1=8F=D0=BD =D0=9F=D0=B0=D0=BB=
=D0=B0=D1=83=D0=B7=D0=BE=D0=B2 wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> you could compile Cyrus Imap with ./configure --disable-http, this=20
>>> will unset the WITH_DAV C-macro, then recompile and create the setup=20
>>> a new.
>>>
>>> Or just run ./configure=C2=A0 && make=C2=A0 as the http server is disab=
led by=20
>>> default.=C2=A0 Then in theory the dav-files should not be created.
>>>
>>> The <user>.dav files are sqlite3 databases, you can live with them.
>>>
>>> Greetings // Dilyan
>>
>> Already compiled without http.
>>
>> Maybe if caldav_create_default was set to false during the first
>> replication run the .dav files would not be created?
>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Per olof Ljungmark <[email protected]>
>>> Reply-To: Info <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Dav
>>> Date: 12/05/26 21:38:41
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We have completed migrating incrementally from 3.0 to 3.8 in our test
>>> enviroment and here is a question for the list,
>>>
>>> There is a some dav* related things created that I assume we do not=20
>>> need
>>> as we do not intend to use the dav*/http features, only a "pure" imap
>>> server.
>>>
>>> Example: the <user>.dav files.
>>>
>>> Should we live with this or can they be avoided? We are prepared do=20
>>> redo
>>> the enviroment from scratch if necessary.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Per

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Kenneth Murchison
Staff Software Developer
Fastmail US LLC
IETF MailMaint Co-Chair


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