Egbert wrote on 29.07.2010:
Hi, I'm trying to convert users from a sendmail server to a postfix/dovecot server. All works fine but one of the last things is to rescue the messages in /var/mail/<user> on the old server. This seems very straitforward using the convert plugin but with the settings from the wiki, nothing happens when the user logs in. Do I need a private namespace for this as suggested elsewhere in the wiki?
No hint in the logfile? Maybe a permission problem or Dovecot can't find any emails? If nothing is logged maybe it helps when you set "mail_debug=yes" in dovecot.conf?
Btw: it seems that in the upcoming Dovecot 2.0 version there's no convert plugin available anymore - with 2.0 you can use "dsync" to convert emails between different mailbox formats.
-- Daniel