[Dovecot] Problem copying e-mails to IMAP - Dovecot 2.1.2

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Mar 16 18:09:58 EET 2012


On 16.3.2012, at 17.57, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

>> imaptest host=localhost user=testuser pass=testpass
>> 
>> Maybe I should set up a FreeBSD VM to try this myself. Or if anyone else
>> can report that they can reproduce this problem that would be helpful..
>> 
> Must I edit src/settings.h to reflect my #define MBOX_PATH value? I think I
> had to do that, but things don't appear good at all.

No, you can also specify it as mbox=path parameter.

> [root at jaribu] ~wash/Tools/Dovecot/2.1/imaptest-20120129# ./src/imaptest
> host=localhost user=wash at kictanet.or.ke pass=XXX
> Fatal: Empty mbox file: /var/spool/virtual/kictanet.or.ke/wash/mdbox

But don't point the mbox there! You'll need to download http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-crlf file and point the mbox to that. It's used to upload mails.



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