[Dovecot] Proper use of convert plugin?
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 13 13:18:51 EEST 2010
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 15:22 -0500, Donny Brooks wrote:
> Sep 11 14:41:38 roark dovecot: IMAP(username): Mailbox conversion: Lock creation timeouted
> Sep 11 14:41:39 roark dovecot: IMAP(username): Fatal: Mailbox conversion failed, exiting
If the mailbox is large I guess this can happen..
> Sep 11 14:56:53 roark dovecot: POP3(otheruser): Mailbox conversion: rename(/home/otheruser/Mail, /home/otheruser/Mail-converted) failed: Directory not empty
ENOTEMPTY or EEXIST
newpath is a non-empty directory, that is, contains entries
other than "." and "..".
The Mail-converted directory already exists?
> Also, while testing this, new mail was not delivered to the maildir
> but rather to the old mbox in /var/spool/mail/username.
Either disable mail delivery or enable convert plugin also in protocol
lda {}.
With v2.0 you could also use dsync, which would work more nicely.
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