On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:58:03 +0200 guenther wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:06 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 23:26 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox directory .gnome2_private
Maildir uses "." as hierarchy separator, so this filename is invalid. I'm not sure if convert_skip_broken_mailboxes=yes should just cause these to be ignored, but for now it doesn't..
Just spotted the above error message (deleted previous posts already), and it strikes me as seriously odd.
Dots in mbox file names are usually embedded (as in "dovecot.org"), where it makes sense, as opposed to beginning with a dot. Even worse, this particular name is kind of weird for a mail folder...
However, this name is well known to me:
[guenther@monkey ~]$ ls -ld .gnome2_private drwx------ 2 guenther users 4096 Jul 21 2005 .gnome2_private/
Me Too :-)
I'd check where the Maildir data actually is being created and what files are being attempted to convert. Almost looks like the Maildir dirs are being created in the users $HOME...
No, dovecot.conf contains
mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/MailDir
...
convert_mail = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
convert_skip_broken_mailboxes = yes--Frank Elsner