[Dovecot] Converting UW MBX mail folder

[Anne Hammond]

mailutil needs the full path to the MBX mail folder in
order to perform any operation on it.

I was just able to implement the following command and it
works fine:
mailutil copy `pwd`/"Sys Admin" "#driver.unix/`pwd`/new"

(whereas 
mailutil copy ./"Sys Admin" "#driver.unix/new"
produces "no such mailbox")

Thanks to Chris Wakelin, Dirk Essl, Steffen Kaiser, Jens Laas
and Marcus Ruecker for speedy and comprehensive advice.

Thanks again, Anne

Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration - Tech-X Corp
                   hammond_at_txcorp.com 303-974-1840

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Chris Wakelin wrote:

> I think you need to specify the full path to the MBX file. Also, if it's
> INBOX, you'll need to rename it to something else first and rename it
> back afterwards.
>
> So something like:
>
> mailutil copy `pwd`/"Sys Admin" "#driver.unix/`pwd`/new"
>
> should work.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
>
> Anne Hammond wrote:
>> We converted from uw-imapd to dovecot but are still having
>> problems with MBX mail folders.
>>
>> The user can't access this "MBX mail folder":
>>
>> [root at volt Resume's]# file "Sys Admin"
>> Sys Admin: MBX mail folder
>> [root at volt Resume's]# mailutil copy ./"Sys Admin" '#driver.unix/new'
>> Can't open mailbox ./Sys Admin: no such mailbox
>> [root at volt Resume's]# mailutil copy -debug -verbose./SysAdminSave
>> '#driver.unix/new'
>> Can't open mailbox ./SysAdminSave: no such mailbox
>>
>> Could you tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration - Tech-X Corp
>
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