[Dovecot] Convert mbox to maildir
Héctor S. Mendoza O
hector at acorporativa.com.mx
Fri Apr 13 22:16:48 EEST 2007
Hello all
Ive installed a new Server with dovecot, started using it and had no
problems until I noticed that I couldnt create sub-sub-folders on my imap
account, Ive read for the past two days info on how to convert and I know
now that instead of using mbox I need to user maildir, the issue is now to
convert mbox to maildir, on the various searches I did, I found the convert
wiki page (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert) followed the
instructions there and no luck, I always end up with an error:
Eopen(/.temp.chihuahua.intranet.acorporativa.com.mx.21409.1089e702ee50f317)
failed: Permission denied
Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89
If I remove the line convert_mail = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u it starts
correctly but I see no e-mails and no conversion takes place, since its a
production server Ive reverted all changes and had to add a line
(mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u) to be able to see my
e-mails again. Ive tried stopping dovecot, making the changes and trying
dovecot n to see the configuration, but with the same results.
Any ideas on what Ive been doing wrong?
TIA
Héctor
[root at chihuahua etc]# dovecot --version
1.0.rc15
[root at chihuahua etc]# dovecot -n
# /etc/dovecot.conf
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
[root at chihuahua etc]#
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