[Dovecot] migrate courier to dovecot script - questions about directory structure

[Ross]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Charles Marcus
<CMarcus at media-brokers.com>wrote:

> On 10/15/2009 Ross wrote:
>
>> My initial plan was to copy the entire /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/*
>> across to the dovecot server and run the migration script. However,
>> without the Maildir directory in the structure it won't work.
>>
>> Has anyone run into this issue ?
>> How did you solve it  ?
>>
>
>  fatboy:/tmp# dovecot -n
>> # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>>
>
> First, I'd recommend going ahead and upgrading to 1.2, but thats up to
> you...



It's the Debian Lenny package (sorry I should have mentioned that).



>
>
>  mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir
>>
>
> Couldn't you fix it by simply removing the trailing /Maildir from the
> mail_location? So, just:
>
>
> mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln
>
>
The mail server is already running another couple of domains, so changing
this would break existing mailboxes I think ?