[Dovecot] invalid mbox files

[Harout S. Hedeshian]

Timo Sirainen wrote ..
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote:
> > > From someone at somewhere  Wed Jan  5 09:03:48 2005
> ..
> > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18
> 
> How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that
> kind of a timestamp. 

Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix:

>From returns at cacert.org  Mon Dec 12 21:31:13 2005

After further investigation, the mbox files generated by postfix and usermin (the sent items folder I think is generated by webmin and not postfix) work fine. If the mbox file was originally generated by thunderbird, then it fails, even if postfix has appended to it. I still don't understand why it worked in 0.99 and not 1.*?

> I suppose I could add support for it..

Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually in order to use dovecot.


Thanks,
Harout Hedeshian