I've now upgraded dovecot from 2.0.21 to 2.1.10 and the good news is I no longer see dovecot crashing when loading the snarf plugin however snarf still does not do anything except make the inbox disappear.

I've come to the conclusion that either snarf does not actually work, possible, but I doubt it, or more likely I have a configuration issue preventing it from working.

The system is simple, all email is stored in /var/spool/mail/{username} and I want all the mail moved to ~/mbox when the user logs in via imap, similar to uw-imap.

Any guidance would really be appreciated.

Thanks, Jeff

dovecot -n # 2.1.10: //etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 16 (Verne) mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox mail_plugins = snarf zlib mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace default { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace snarf { hidden = yes list = no location = mbox:/run/dovecot/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY prefix = /snarf separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mbox_snarf = ~/mbox snarf = /snarf/INBOX } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = localhost } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = localhost } } ssl_cert =

syslog:

Oct 24 13:33:27 xyzzy dovecot: master: Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration Oct 24 13:33:27 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. in=277 out=106519 Oct 24 13:33:27 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. in=422 out=2893 Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jeff>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=28089, secured, session=<L6okfNHM2AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib05_snarf_plugin.so Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib30_imap_zlib_plugin.so Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Effective uid=500, gid=500, home=/home/jeff Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace default: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/home/jeff/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/home/jeff/mbox, alt= Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace snarf: type=private, prefix=/snarf, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:/run/dovecot/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/jeff:INDEX=MEMORY Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/run/dovecot/empty, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/jeff, alt= Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Disconnected: Logged out in=117 out=1504