[Dovecot] doveadm import : Error creating new mailbox

[Administrator BCS]

Citeren Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:

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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, Administrator BCS wrote:
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>> Now trying to manually import some mbox files from the old server  
>> into dovecot. Copied a mbox file to the new system, converted it to  
>> Maildir with mb2md resulting in a directory containing the new, cur  
>> en tmp. Looks ok, old email messages are all there.
>>
>> When importing this folder using doveadm import it fails with the message:
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> Copy/move the files in cur and new into the new place, no need for  
> doveadm import. If there is no target mailbox of that name, copy the  
> whole .mailbox.sub.sub folder.
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well the example I gave was maybe a bit confusing. Moving/copying the  
contents of folders works but only for already existing folders.
When I want to import folders that do not yet exist and create them by  
copying a .mailbox folder to the users vmail folder it does not show  
up in my front end (Horde). From what I learned so far this is because  
I have to use the dovecot import tool in order to make dovecot  
recognize them.

> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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