I'm trying to convert from an old Dovecot (1.0.15) and mbox to a new Dovecot and maildir. I'm running into several problems with dsync which are causing my mboxes not to convert.

If I use LAYOUT=fs (as I'd prefer) I get an error because I have a mailbox called "subscriptions", and none of my messages convert. Is there a way to get dovecot to put its own metadata in dotfiles instead?
(I guess I can rename my mailbox too :-)

% dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail dsync(nriley): Error: read() failed with subscription file /home/nriley/Maildir/subscriptions: Is a directory dsync(nriley): Error: Can't update subscription +/INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-10-21 20:17:55] [...]

Also, what "server log" is it referring to above?

So I tried without LAYOUT=fs, and dsync successfully converts some mailboxes, then crashes:

% dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail dsync(nriley): Error: Maildir: 6ef533cd4cdb1fd454b0226bfc851bb3:2, changed UID 1846529 -> 1846531 dsync(nriley): Panic: file maildir-save.c: line 892 (maildir_save_sync_uidlist): assertion failed: (ret > 0) dsync(nriley): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb7ea21f1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x47) [0xb7ea2317] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0xb7ea2544] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_transaction_save_commit_ pre+0x858) [0xb7f2ab58] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0xb7f2501f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_transaction_commit_fu ll+0x85) [0xb7f67eb5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_transaction_commit+0x94) [0xb7f24c14] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_transaction_commit_get_c hanges+0x42) [0xb7efeaa2] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x8056ed2] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x80570f0] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_worker_select_mailbox+0x2e) [0x8055b2e] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x80507e6] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x8050a3b] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_msg_sync_new_msgs+0x12) [0x8050c12] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_msg_sync_more+0x2e1) [0x8050261] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x309) [0x804e949] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x804f953] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x72e) [0x804ed6e] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x804f7d0] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x55d) [0x804eb9d] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync_all+0x18) [0x804f668] -> /usr/bin/dsync(main+0x5a1) [0x804da51] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7d29455] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x804d2e1] [1] 30528 abort dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail

I tried running it in GDB but that crashed GDB, so hopefully the above info is OK...

% gdb --args dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/dsync mirror mbox:\~/Mail [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New process 30652] Executing new program: /usr/bin/doveconf warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error [New process 30652] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [1] 30651 segmentation fault gdb -q --args dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail

I'm using the Debian packages from rename-it.nl. Here is doveconf -n output:

# 2.0.6 (aaca506ea33b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-linode22 i686 Debian 5.0.6 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd }

Nicholas Riley <njriley@illinois.edu>