Re: [Dovecot] migrating from uw imapd

On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 16:17 Europe/Helsinki, Craig wrote:

1. uw imapd grabs new mail from /var/mail/user and then shoves it into ~/mbox, is there any way to make dovecot handle this kind of setup or am I better off merging ~/mbox back into /var/mail/user? If merging is better are what tools are best for this?

There's no way currently. And I'm not sure what's the point of that anyway, so I don't really have plans to do that. Wasn't this mbox moving optional in UW-IMAP too?

For merging you could just use cat :) cat /var/mail/user >> /home/user/mbox, mv /home/user/mbox /var/mail/user

And to avoid losing mails you should stop SMTP and IMAP servers..

2. While I did have have everything in ~/Mail coming up dovetail stopped working and logs the following error:

syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap-login: Login: haakon [192.168.0.107] syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap(haakon): Failed to create storage with data: ~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/haakon

Try default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Although it should have worked without the mbox: prefix too. Maybe some permission problem.