Thank you. Read further in my message. I was trying to convert from MBX format via mailutil.

mailutil isn't recognzing the "MBX mail folder":

[root@volt Resume's]# file "Sys Admin" Sys Admin: MBX mail folder [root@volt Resume's]# mailutil copy ./"Sys Admin" '#driver.unix/new' Can't open mailbox ./Sys Admin: no such mailbox

I've copied the MBX mail folder to a name without spaces, and also copied it to a different directory and changed the modes, but still get the same error message.

Any assistance appreciated because this has been a huge headache for a number of people.

Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration - Tech-X Corp

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

On 2006-09-28 18:12:22 -0600, Anne Hammond wrote:

...

We converted from uw-imapd to dovecot but are still having problems with MBX mail folders.

The user can't access this "MBX mail folder":

MBX is not supported.

darix

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On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 18:48 -0600, Anne Hammond wrote:

Thank you. Read further in my message. I was trying to convert from MBX format via mailutil.

mailutil isn't recognzing the "MBX mail folder":

[root@volt Resume's]# file "Sys Admin" Sys Admin: MBX mail folder [root@volt Resume's]# mailutil copy ./"Sys Admin" '#driver.unix/new' Can't open mailbox ./Sys Admin: no such mailbox

I've copied the MBX mail folder to a name without spaces, and also copied it to a different directory and changed the modes, but still get the same error message.

Any assistance appreciated because this has been a huge headache for a number of people.

mailutil seems to always look for the folder starting from the home directory no matter what path you give it on the command line.

This is how I convert MBX folders:

create a directory uw under the home directory:

  cd
  mkdir -m 700 uw

copy the mbx folders into that directory

convert with mailutil like this:

     mailutil copy -verbose uw/$in \#driver.unix/uw/$out

-- Ian

mailutil needs the full path to the MBX mail folder in order to perform any operation on it.

I was just able to implement the following command and it works fine: mailutil copy pwd/"Sys Admin" "#driver.unix/pwd/new"

(whereas mailutil copy ./"Sys Admin" "#driver.unix/new" produces "no such mailbox")

Thanks to Chris Wakelin, Dirk Essl, Steffen Kaiser, Jens Laas and Marcus Ruecker for speedy and comprehensive advice.

Thanks again, Anne

Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration - Tech-X Corp hammond_at_txcorp.com 303-974-1840

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Chris Wakelin wrote:

I think you need to specify the full path to the MBX file. Also, if it's INBOX, you'll need to rename it to something else first and rename it back afterwards.

So something like:

mailutil copy pwd/"Sys Admin" "#driver.unix/pwd/new"

should work.

Best Wishes, Chris

Anne Hammond wrote:

...

We converted from uw-imapd to dovecot but are still having problems with MBX mail folders.

The user can't access this "MBX mail folder":

[root@volt Resume's]# file "Sys Admin" Sys Admin: MBX mail folder [root@volt Resume's]# mailutil copy ./"Sys Admin" '#driver.unix/new' Can't open mailbox ./Sys Admin: no such mailbox [root@volt Resume's]# mailutil copy -debug -verbose./SysAdminSave '#driver.unix/new' Can't open mailbox ./SysAdminSave: no such mailbox

Could you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration - Tech-X Corp

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