[Dovecot] Migrating from uw-imapd to dovecot
Chris Wakelin
c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Thu Sep 14 12:44:45 EEST 2006
Do you mean some folders are in the UW-IMAP proprietary "mbx" format
(essentially an mbox with extra indexing information included)? If so,
you'll need to convert them to plain "mbox" files, using something like
UW-IMAPs "mailutil" command:
mailutil copy <rooted unix path to folder> "#driver.unix:<rooted unix
path to new folder>#'
e.g. mailutil copy `pwd`/mbx-folder "#driver.unix:`pwd`/mbox-folder"
then rename/delete the original folder and move the new one to replace it.
Hope this helps,
Chris
Anne Hammond wrote:
> We recently switch from up-imapd to dovecot
> But many users are reporting that they cannot access certain mail folders.
>
> The log file has:
> imap(dws): Sep 14 00:06:19 Error: File isn't in mbox format:
> /home/research/dws/mail/TaskDL
>
> The files in the logs are "MBX mail folders", not "ASCII English
> text" as are the folders that can be read under Outlook.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this? This is a serious problem in switching.
>
> I've read the FAQ and documentation but it doesn't speak to this
> specific problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Anne Hammond
> Tech-X Corporation
>
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