[Dovecot] kmail-error: can't upload folder (imap-account on dovecot-server)

[Ron Leach]

cool.chris65 at web.de wrote:

> 
> The reason for using debian etch and dovecot 1.0 is the hardware:
> it's running on a Fritzbox-Router, and there is actual a littlebit
> trouble with lenny (often crashing, reboots of the whole box etc.)
> 

Though I don't anticipate this will solve your prime issue, we were 
able to (still) somewhat update Dovecot on a Debian Etch box using the 
Archive at Debian; we used these:

> http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_1.0.15-2.3+lenny1~bpo40+1_i386.deb
>  
> http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_1.0.15-2.3+lenny1~bpo40+1_i386.deb
> 

Apparently, the backports repository can still be used (no updates):

> Debian Backports "Today the Backports for Debian Etch got removed
> from the backports.debian.org archive. Should you really still need
> them, the backports are still available from
> http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports [1] but we recommend
> everybody to upgrade from Etch with backports to Lenny (with
> backports) now, as there is no security support anymore for Etch." 
> http://backports.debian.org/

regards, Ron