[Dovecot] Convert mbox to maildir

Hello all

I’ve installed a new Server with dovecot, started using it and had no problems until I noticed that I couldn’t create sub-sub-folders on my imap account, I’ve read for the past two days info on how to convert and I know now that instead of using mbox I need to user maildir, the issue is now to convert mbox to maildir, on the various searches I did, I found the convert wiki page (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert) followed the instructions there and no luck, I always end up with an error:

Eopen(/.temp.chihuahua.intranet.acorporativa.com.mx.21409.1089e702ee50f317) failed: Permission denied

Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89

If I remove the line convert_mail = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u it starts correctly but I see no e-mails and no conversion takes place, since it’s a production server I’ve reverted all changes and had to add a line (mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u) to be able to see my e-mails again. I’ve tried stopping dovecot, making the changes and trying dovecot –n to see the configuration, but with the same results.

Any ideas on what I’ve been doing wrong?

TIA

Héctor

[root@chihuahua etc]# dovecot --version

1.0.rc15

[root@chihuahua etc]# dovecot -n

# /etc/dovecot.conf

login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login

login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login

mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3

mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3

auth default:

passdb:

driver: pam

userdb:

driver: passwd

[root@chihuahua etc]#