Sorry to answer my own question.
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:36:05 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote:
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plugin: convert_mail: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u convert_skip_broken_mailboxes: no
After changing this to
convert_mail = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u ^^^^^^^^ Because currently UW-IMAP is in use
convert_skip_broken_mailboxes = yes
...
service dovecot start Starting IMAP-Service (dovecot 1.0.rc31)Eopen(/.temp.seymour.elsner.lan.5894.59e ab08fc33e142b) failed: Permission denied Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 [FAILED]#
The above error disappeared and now the log shows:
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: imap-login: Login: USER=migrant, [192.168.28.53] Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Loading modules from directory: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Module loaded: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_convert_plugin.so Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Effective uid=1988, gid=100, home=/home/migrant Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: data=/home/migrant:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/migrant Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: root=/home/migrant, index=/home/migrant, inbox=/var/spool/mail/migrant Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: data=/home/migrant:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/migrant Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: root=/home/migrant, index=/home/migrant, inbox=/var/spool/mail/migrant Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): maildir: data=/home/migrant/MailDir Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): maildir: root=/home/migrant/MailDir, index=/home/migrant/MailDir, control=, inbox= Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox directory .gnome2_private Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: child 9905 (imap) returned error 89
--Frank Elsner