L. Scott Loftin wrote:
Dovecot version: 1.0.rc7
I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a ... Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?
FC4 used the older 0.99 dovecot installs (0.99.14 it looks like), you will need to read the Wiki and docs, and migrate your Dovecot config to the newer style -- once you do that, I bet everything will start working as intended.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot
Before even starting, the first thing I'd do is upgrade to the actual 1.0.0 release, there were... 25(?) further release candidates beyond rc7. Axel has an RPM ready for you:
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/dovecot/
hth, -te
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