[Dovecot] .imap files

[L. Scott Loftin]

Thanks for the quick answers.  My problem isn't about new email now showing
up after the FC4-->FC6 upgrade.  It's about trying to get to old email (that
existing under FC4 (Dovecot 0.99.14) not being accessible in any way under
FC6 (Dovecot 1.0.0).  If I delete the .imap.* files from 0.99.14, I lose all
the old email in the folders.

Email under 1.0.0 is working perfectly (new mail shows up and is perfectly
readable by the client).  I just need to find a way to get back to the "old"
email from 0.99.14's .imap* files.

Thanks!
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
Behalf Of Timo Sirainen
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:49 AM
To: Dovecot Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] .imap files

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:17 -0400, L. Scott Loftin wrote:
> I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was
a
> clean install, not an upgrade).  Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to
> handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients.  After the FC6 install
and
> copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is
> not seeing the old email.  Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold
> new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files.

There are various reasons why mailboxes aren't showing.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes lists some of them.

> Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.*
> files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?

.imap* files however have nothing to do with mail not showing up.
There's no need to convert or do anything to them. If anything you can
just delete them.