[Dovecot] Help: RH9 upgrade (mbox)
Guy Davis
davis at guydavis.ca
Wed Jun 9 21:21:58 EEST 2004
I just upgraded my RH9 server with UW-IMAP to Fedora Core 2 and after a
short try with Cyrus, I'm hoping to get Dovecot configured. My problem
is getting Dovecot to recognize my old mbox mail folders.
It correctly shows the INBOX contents from the /var/spool/mail/davis
mbox. However, I also had a bunch of mboxes such as:
/home/davis/Mail/Sent
/home/davis/Mail/Lists/list1
Reading the documentation, Dovecot indicates it will recognize mbox
files within the ~/mail directory. So I moved my mail over giving:
/home/davis/mail/Sent
/home/davis/mail/Lists/list1
Unfortunately, after restarting Dovecot and restarting my IMAP client
(Mozilla), I don't see anything other than my Inbox. If I create a file
(/home/davis/mail/.subscriptions) with 'Sent' in it, and restart things
then I can see Inbox and Sent.
This would let me have a single directory with multiple mbox files in
it. However, I'm not able to get Dovecot to recurse and let me see
mboxes in subfolders such as:
/home/davis/mail/Lists/list1
As well, when I first connect to Dovecot via Mozilla, I get an error
saying: 'The current command did not succeed. The mail server replied
"Invalid mask"'. What does this mean and how do I correct it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Guy
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