[MlMt] MailMate crashes when using encfs

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 18 Sep 2013, at 16:05, Felix Kling wrote:

> I started playing around with 
> [encfs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS) lately and also wanted to 
> secure my mails by mounting the encrypted filesystem at
>
>  ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate
>
> This worked at first, but when I try to start MailMate now, it crashes 
> and the log only shows:
>
>> rmdir failed: Resource busy
>> Path: /Users/kling/Library/Application Support/MailMate
>> Abort trap: 6
> [...]
> So it seems that MailMate is trying to delete this folder, but why? 
> Could this be changed so that it works well with encfs? (Needless to 
> say it works fine without encfs)

The only reason MailMate would try to delete a folder is if it sees the 
folder as empty. In general, when MailMate deletes a file from a folder 
then the folder is deleted if it's empty to keep everything as clean as 
possible (this is mainly to keep the `Messages/` folder clean).

Apparently the code handling this is confused by the encrypted 
filesystem. I can, of course, make sure that MailMate never tries to 
delete the main folder (and I should), but that is of course no 
guarantee that there are no other reasons that it'll fail to work.

Thanks for the report.

-- 
Benny
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