[Dovecot] Convert plugin mbox to maildir has no effect

[Frank Elsner]

Sorry to answer my own question.

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:36:05 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote:

  [ ... ]

> plugin:
>   convert_mail: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
>   convert_skip_broken_mailboxes: no

After changing this to

convert_mail = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
                    ^^^^^^^^
                             Because currently UW-IMAP is in use

convert_skip_broken_mailboxes = yes
 
  ...

> > service dovecot start
> Starting IMAP-Service (dovecot 1.0.rc31)Eopen(/.temp.seymour.elsner.lan.5894.59e
> ab08fc33e142b) failed: Permission denied
> Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89
>                                                            [FAILED]#

The above error disappeared and now the log shows:

Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: imap-login: Login: USER=migrant, [192.168.28.53]
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Loading modules from directory: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Module loaded: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_convert_plugin.so
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Effective uid=1988, gid=100, home=/home/migrant
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: data=/home/migrant:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: root=/home/migrant, index=/home/migrant, inbox=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: data=/home/migrant:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: root=/home/migrant, index=/home/migrant, inbox=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): maildir: data=/home/migrant/MailDir
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): maildir: root=/home/migrant/MailDir, index=/home/migrant/MailDir, control=, inbox=
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox directory .gnome2_private
Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: child 9905 (imap) returned error 89


--Frank Elsner