Mail breaks with Portable Home directories

Anyone using portable home directories in Lion yet?


Just set up a test account on a Lion Server/Lion Client. Syncing seems to be working fine but everytime I switch computers, Mail freaks out and returns:


"Your mail index has been damaged. To repair it, quit Mail" After 'reloading' my mailboxes, it works fine...until I switch computers again. Mail is standard IMAP to a gmail account.


Anybody else seeing this?

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 29, 2011 5:49 AM

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Aug 7, 2011 6:24 PM in response to Omniver

Solved this one on my own. It seems that Apple has neglected to update the Portable Home Directories syncing exclusion rules for the locations of the new Mail files, they still show the old Snow Leopard Locations.


In Worgroup Manager in mobility settings for the clients, under "Preference Sync" change the two Mail related items in the "Skip items..." section to the following:


Partial Path: ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/AvailableFeeds

Partial Path: ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index


(note the change from Full Path to Partial Path)


It really would be good if Apple did a little more QA before releasing their products.

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