On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:17 -0400, L. Scott Loftin wrote:
I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 install and copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files.
There are various reasons why mailboxes aren't showing. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes lists some of them.
Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?
.imap* files however have nothing to do with mail not showing up. There's no need to convert or do anything to them. If anything you can just delete them.