on 10-23-2008 4:31 PM Albert E. Whale spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
on 10-23-2008 1:35 PM Neil spake the following:
On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:17, Albert E. Whale wrote:
Neil wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 23:35, Albert E. Whale wrote:
I've been running a mbox solution using UW's IMAP server. I've run it for years.
Now do to heavy message volumes, I've decided to to take the plunge to convert to the Maildir format.
I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully converted the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am setting up the procmail tool to place the messages into the correct folder. I have been following the http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat formula, but now have a question.
New Messages are now being placed into the ~user/Maildir/new folder. However, when I attempt to retrieve those messages, Dovecot does not find them. Why not?
How are you attempting to retrieve them?
I am trying to retrieve them using the POP3 section of Thunderbird.
Is Maildir an IMAP format?
No, the protocol (IMAP/POP3) is irrelevant. The important part to note (and where I suspect your problem is) is that the folder, as far as your client (Thunderbird) is concerned, is "Maildir/", the "Maildir/new/" directory is part of Maildir's internal format.
That is to say, you should never be putting "Maildir/(new|cur|tmp)" as a mailbox name into a client, just "Maildir/".
-N.
With Dovecot set up properly, you should be leaving any client settings for directory blank. In thunderbird you shouldn't have to set "IMAP server directory".
Good, because I am still using the POP3 server.
Sorry. After you get a little way down the thread, you forget some details. Did you post a "dovecot -n" to see if you have a setting messed up somewhere?
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