Egbert wrote on 30.07.2010:
Op 30-7-2010 0:07, Daniel Luttermann schreef:
Egbert wrote on 29.07.2010:
Hi, I'm trying to convert users from a sendmail server to a postfix/dovecot server. All works fine but one of the last things is to rescue the messages in /var/mail/<user> on the old server. This seems very straitforward using the convert plugin but with the settings from the wiki, nothing happens when the user logs in. Do I need a private namespace for this as suggested elsewhere in the wiki?
No hint in the logfile? Maybe a permission problem or Dovecot can't find any emails? If nothing is logged maybe it helps when you set "mail_debug=yes" in dovecot.conf?
Btw: it seems that in the upcoming Dovecot 2.0 version there's no convert plugin available anymore - with 2.0 you can use "dsync" to convert emails between different mailbox formats.
-- Daniel
Yeah, the obvious place to look. There I found out that the plugin looks for a direcory in /var/mail/ called <user> and in that directory a mailfile called 'inbox' is expected. So I have now the convert in imap and pop3 chapters of dovecot.conf and enabled the plugin in the plugin section:
protocol imap { mail_plugins = convert } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = convert } plugin { convert_mail = mbox:/var/mail/%u }
So things finally start to work. Only the rename of the /var/mail/<user> directory doesn't work yet. Wrong owner. I made /var/mail owned by vmail:vmail but that is not good. Maybe it should be owned by dovecot. Who is the owner of the convert process?
EJ
I think that vmail should be the correct user/group for this but it could be a problem if the source and destination directories are the same (home directory is the same as mail_location).
Have you set a different mail location? I think Dovecot can't rename the old directory if the new mail location is in the same directory.
-- Daniel