Re: [Dovecot] Migrating from uw-imapd to dovecot

Anne Hammond schrieb:

We recently switch from up-imapd to dovecot But many users are reporting that they cannot access certain mail folders.

The log file has: imap(dws): Sep 14 00:06:19 Error: File isn't in mbox format: /home/research/dws/mail/TaskDL

The files in the logs are "MBX mail folders", not "ASCII English text" as are the folders that can be read under Outlook.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this? This is a serious problem in switching.

MBX is a special UW-IMAP mailbox format. Dovecot can't read those. You must use a UW-IMAP tool to convert the MBX file back to a regular MBOX format. Any UW-IMAP should contain such a tool. Hope that helps.

Best Regards Michael Paesold