[Dovecot] migrating from uw imapd

[Craig Askings]

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 16:35, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 16:17 Europe/Helsinki, Craig wrote:
> 
> > 1. uw imapd grabs new mail from /var/mail/user and then shoves it into 
> > ~/mbox, is there any way to make dovecot handle this kind of setup or 
> > am I better off merging ~/mbox back into /var/mail/user? If merging is 
> > better are what tools are best for this?
> 
> There's no way currently. And I'm not sure what's the point of that 
> anyway, so I don't really have plans to do that. Wasn't this mbox 
> moving optional in UW-IMAP too?
> 
> For merging you could just use cat :) cat /var/mail/user >> 
> /home/user/mbox, mv /home/user/mbox /var/mail/user
> 
> And to avoid losing mails you should stop SMTP and IMAP servers..
> 
I had a look and no other users are setup that way on my server, I
suspect it was uw imapd just carrying on from what mutt was doing.

The merge went successfully so that is that problem fixed.

> > 2. While I did have have everything in ~/Mail coming up dovetail 
> > stopped working and logs the following error:
> >
> > syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap-login: Login: haakon 
> > [192.168.0.107]
> > syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap(haakon): Failed to create storage 
> > with data: ~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/haakon
> 
> Try default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> 
> Although it should have worked without the mbox: prefix too. Maybe some 
> permission problem.
> 
Looks like the problem was with my .subscription file. After I fixed
that it all came good.

Thanks for your quick response, your help is much appreciated.

Regards,
Craig.