[Dovecot] Convert plugin mbox to maildir has no effect

Frank Elsner Frank.Elsner at TU-Berlin.DE
Tue Apr 10 17:15:21 EEST 2007


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:06:02 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 23:26 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox directory .gnome2_private
> 
> Maildir uses "." as hierarchy separator, so this filename is invalid.
> I'm not sure if convert_skip_broken_mailboxes=yes should just cause
> these to be ignored, but for now it doesn't..

Could this behaviour be changed?

I guess it's not a rare case for installations with UW-IMAP and
would make the switch to dovecot much more attractive :-)


Regards, Frank Elsner 



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