Ok...I made the leap. Compiled a copy of 1.2b4 (very pleasant compile BTW - almost no warnings, nice code Timo!)...tweaked a config...had a few false starts...
1.2b4 seems to working quite nicely. Now...for my next magical trick...
I would like to migrate from maildir to dbox. I've tried using the convert plugin, but it kept failing during the conversion. I should mention my paths:
home (old & new) = /var/mail/%d/%n old mail = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n new mail = dbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/dbox
Note that "home" was defined as the same path as "mail" in my old config
- I'm looking to fix that as well during the migration.
I found entries in my mail log after the convert execution similar to: Mar 30 19:00:52 bubba dovecot: IMAP(sfox@amfes.com): rename(/var/mail/amfes.com/sfox/.dovecot.convert.lock/cur, /var/mail/amfes.com/sfox/dbox/mailboxes/dovecot/convert/lock/dbox-Mails) failed: Not a directory Mar 30 19:01:41 bubba dovecot: IMAP(sfox@amfes.com): Mailbox conversion failed for mailbox dovecot.convert.lock
Now that I'm staring at that line...I'm wondering if that "home=mail" configuration is part of the problem.
I currently have about a dozen users on this box - but with very large mailboxes (I still have archived mailing lists in mine!). If there's a few manual steps I need to perform to "condition" this setup prior to conversion please advise. Should I manually shift the mailboxes into a "/var/mail/%d/%n/maildir" folder?
Daniel