On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:17, Albert E. Whale wrote:
Neil wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 23:35, Albert E. Whale wrote:
I've been running a mbox solution using UW's IMAP server. I've
run it for years.Now do to heavy message volumes, I've decided to to take the
plunge to convert to the Maildir format.I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully
converted the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am
setting up the procmail tool to place the messages into the correct folder.
I have been following the http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
formula, but now have a question.New Messages are now being placed into the ~user/Maildir/new folder. However, when I attempt to retrieve those messages, Dovecot does not find them. Why not?
How are you attempting to retrieve them?
I am trying to retrieve them using the POP3 section of Thunderbird.
Is Maildir an IMAP format?
No, the protocol (IMAP/POP3) is irrelevant. The important part to
note (and where I suspect your problem is) is that the folder, as far
as your client (Thunderbird) is concerned, is "Maildir/", the "Maildir/
new/" directory is part of Maildir's internal format.
That is to say, you should never be putting "Maildir/(new|cur|tmp)" as
a mailbox name into a client, just "Maildir/".
-N.