[Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 31 21:38:37 EEST 2010
On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 17:17 +0200, Kim Bisgaard wrote:
> Using this command ($1 is substituted for the user):
> dsync -u $1 -o "mail_location=maildir:/data/mail/$1/mdir" mirror
> "mdbox:/data/mail/$1/mdbox"
I guess this should work.
> After having learned that I need to create the destination directory
> first, I got this error:
> dsync(root): Fatal: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox
> hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace)
>
> Which I am afraid does not help me much - tried to set separator to '.'
> in namespace but that only ended in lda/deliver refusing to deliver
> mail. :-(
What error did lda give? You probably should add:
namespace {
separator = /
inbox = yes
}
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