On May 17, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Tony Tsang wrote:

I am planning to use dovecot IMAP on my server. Currently it is running UW-IMAP server with Maildir format storing users' mail. I've found that dovecot uses different Maildir format from UW-IMAP. Is there any configuration option for adapting dovecot to use format used by UW-IMAP?

I just finished conversion from UW-IMAP mbox to Dovecot Maildir using
only Dovecot's "convert" plug-in. The plug-in worked far better than
other conversion scripts that I've tried such as perfect_maildir.pl
and mb2md. It made the conversion totally automatic as each user
logged into their account.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins

Good luck, B. Bodger New York, NY

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:47 +0800, Tony Tsang wrote:

Hi all,

I am planning to use dovecot IMAP on my server. Currently it is running UW-IMAP server with Maildir format storing users' mail. I've found that dovecot uses different Maildir format from UW-IMAP. Is there any configuration option for adapting dovecot to use format used by UW-IMAP?

A standard UW-IMAP distribution doesn't include support for maildir. Do you mean you're using that unofficial patch which used UID=xyz in the maildir filenames? If so, you'll have to change the directory layout to Maildir++, but otherwise those filenames would work, even though new UIDs will be given to them unless you write a script that writes them to dovecot-uidlist file.

Alternatively you could try CVS HEAD version of Dovecot which supports filesystem layout for Maildirs (mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=FS), but then again CVS HEAD is an actual stable release.