On 2016-04-04 07:49, Hendrik Velloen wrote:

Hi

I am new to the mailing List, and was hoping to get some assistance migrating from an Old Cucipop + Sendmail server (running on a old Redhat v 7) to a new Dovecot setup. My new installation is Dovecot + Postfix. All is setup and working, however I want to trasnsfer the contents of the mailboxes from my old server to this new Dovecot setup.

Please let me know what information will be required to transfer the mailboxes - I have tried a number of things, but with no luck.

I think the correct method is the one below, but I am getting UIDL errors and AUTH errors and not sure if this is the right approach ---- PLEASE HELP

dsync -u mirror mbox:~/mail:INBOX=

~# dsync -u hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za mirror mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/User_mbox/hendrikv

dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: pop3c(196.26.136.162): AUTH PLAIN failed: -ERR Invalid command, try one of: USER name, PASS string, APOP name digest, QUIT dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: pop3c: Disconnected from remote server dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: pop3_migration: Couldn't sync mailbox POP3-MIGRATION-NS/INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-04-04 08:27:01] dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=ddbe5c71e58919cfe2a40905bced091d (UID=3054) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=64087a4c7bf960114cf17ba044047900 (UID=374) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=fd28baf9e91aedaf06c6e979ca76e96f (UID=2982) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=607087e611559d2df02c0684de87e10d (UID=991) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=c6a9aebd1f535f0cd82ed612a42bae77 (UID=1541) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=4c56ffcfb600c8b216b2f1603383dc13 (UID=1007) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=96ce5556fab323206f51deb03625be8a (UID=2357) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=cda74cb161321b7c99973cc65e80a591 (UID=1401) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=b735acf7ef69b39be157a97223878cdc (UID=642) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=6d9baedf21198be32152461f96737a1a (UID=481) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=19f36b934b74ce11f1eda95e32a0b112 (UID=1998) dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: Exporting mailbox INBOX failed: Can't lookup pop3-uidl for UID=1: POP3 UIDLs couldn't be synce

the descriptions here are for moving between formats. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat Isn't mbox one big file that you can copy across ? I have just made a new server with Maildir format. Probably it is not the thing to do but I copied the old ~/Maildir/cur contents to new ~/Maildir/new (or cur I forget which) seems to work except they all get the same date.

mick

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On 04 Apr 2016, at 09:49, Hendrik Velloen hendrik00@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

dsync(hendrikv@tcmvpn.co.za): Error: pop3c(196.26.136.162): AUTH PLAIN failed: -ERR Invalid command, try one of: USER name, PASS string, APOP name digest, QUIT

Dovecot tries to use AUTH PLAIN instead of the regular USER+PASS. I think you have set pop3c_master_user setting, which enables this behavior.