Hi,
When an mbox has a filename with a period, the Dovecot 1.0.1 convert
plugin will endlessly convert the same mbox causing duplicate messages.
To reproduce, create try converting two mboxes: one with a valid name
and another with an invalid name. Then, repeat the login procedure a
few times.
Dovecot should do something more graceful such as replacing periods with another character.
Here's /var/log/mail/errors Jul 2 08:29:44 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name Jul 2 08:39:46 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name Jul 2 08:48:54 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name Jul 2 08:48:58 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name Jul 2 08:49:39 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name Jul 2 08:59:40 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name Jul 2 09:09:40 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name Jul 2 09:20:23 aslan dovecot: IMAP(crystalp): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Print Shop Misc.: Invalid mailbox name
I didn't test other non-{alphanumeric,whitespace} characters.
Other than this and my previous e-mails, our conversion from UW-IMAP mboxes went nicely. I notice the performance difference, and our users will be happy to finally have proper subfolders.
Andrew