convert_mail =
mbox:/export/mbox/migrate/%u:INBOX=/export/mbox/migrate/%u/%u:INDEX=Maildir:%h/mail/
This is the problem. The line "INBOX=/export/mbox/migrate/%u/%u" is what creates the .user directory.
We had to go with %u/%u because if %u is a file you get the error:
POP3(user1): open() failed with subscription file /export/mbox/migrate/user1/.subscriptions: Not a directory
and we fail to see any way to tell it not to look for the subscriptions file. However, we commented out the copy_subscriptions line from convert_plugin.c, and left the convert line as:
convert_mail = mbox:/export/mbox/migrate/%u:INBOX=/export/mbox/migrate/%u:INDEX=Maildir:%h/mail/
Now it works well, does not create the user/mail/.user directory, DOES convert into the user/mail/cur/ directory.
It still creates a user/Maildir/ (+ .imap/INBOX) directory, which seems to be mostly useless, but we can live with that. (Just remove them all when mbox are converted).
Lund
Jorgen Lundman wrote:
We are currently running dovecot-1.0.10 on Solaris 10 x86.
Several users has noticed that they get different emails when using pop vs using IMAP. When I check a user's home directory, I find the following situation:
/nfs/mail/1/1/hiro.11/mail/: drwx------ 6 176785 1000 512 Mar 21 07:53 . drwxr-xr-x 3 176785 1000 512 Feb 29 17:01 .. drwx------ 5 176785 1000 512 Feb 19 12:52 .hiro_11_c7 drwx------ 2 176785 1000 8192 Mar 21 07:53 cur -rw------- 1 176785 1000 1445 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 176785 1000 144 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 176785 1000 57344 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 176785 1000 66424 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 176785 1000 7680 Mar 21 10:34 new drwx------ 2 176785 1000 1536 Mar 21 10:34 tmp
/nfs/mail/1/1/hiro.11/mail/.hiro_11_c7/: drwx------ 5 176785 1000 512 Feb 19 12:52 . drwx------ 6 176785 1000 512 Mar 21 07:53 .. drwx------ 2 176785 1000 512 Feb 19 12:52 cur -rw------- 1 176785 1000 1037 Feb 19 12:52 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 176785 1000 120 Feb 19 12:52 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 176785 1000 24 Feb 19 12:52 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 176785 1000 0 Feb 19 12:52 maildirfolder drwx------ 2 176785 1000 1536 Feb 19 12:52 new drwx------ 2 176785 1000 1536 Feb 19 12:52 tmp
I suspect that is less than ideal. What exactly is creating these folders, and how do we stop it? I can clean it up ok (which I'd rather do as one maintenance) but only once I know it wont happen again.
Should also mention that we have a mbox convert script running for a couple of months, to convert their old mail. Then it will be removed:
convert_mail = mbox:/export/mbox/migrate/%u:INBOX=/export/mbox/migrate/%u/%u:INDEX=Maildir:%h/mail/
Should also mention, one server in the cluster was incorrectly running version dovecot-1.0.2 (boy was that fun to track down).
Lund
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