[Dovecot] migrating from mbox to maildir

[Mark Adams]

I can not help with the error, but can tell you there is a few  
conversion tools for mbox to maildir format. Have a search on google.

Mark.


On 23 Nov 2007, at 18:53, "Erick Perez" <eaperezh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a locking problem in a Centos 4.4 linux machine with the
> following config:
> dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4
> postfix-2.2.10-1.1.el4
>
> I use virtual mailboxes with postfix
>
> currently I have dovecot with mbox as this:
> default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/virtualmail/%d/%n
>
> The problem is that mail is being delivered to mailboxes very very
> slowly (sometimes up to 4 hours). In my logs, I have tons of these
> messages:
>
> mail postfix/virtual[24965]: CFB8878D04F: to=<REMOVED at REMOVED>,
> relay=virtual, delay=51, status=deferred (mailbox
> /var/spool/mail/virtualmail/REMOVEDDOMAINNAME/npitti: unable to lock
> for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable)
>
> then someone told me that I need to change dovecot to maildir format.
> Is there a reference to change format?
> Or some comments about this?
>
> Thanks in advance.