I do not have much experience in setting up imap servers - only that I have tried several and experienced the same problem with all of them. I suppose that is because I do not really know the in's and out's of an imap server.
What I want to do is to setup an IMAP server on my PC with full access to all the emails already there in a maildir structure.
I have the following setup:
fetchmail -> procmail -> maildir
exim for outgoing mail.
When I install an imap server, I loose access to my present emails in ~/Mail and most imap-servers (dovecot included) seems to create a new structure within ~/Mail. ~/Maildir is a symlink to ~/Mail.
Now my questions:
How do I set up dovecot to serve the present maildir to the user?
Related to 1: How do I migrate my emails to the new imap-maildir structure without losing any?
How would my present procmail-setup change? At the moment I have entries like the following:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Ander/new # completely optional :0:
- X-Spam-Flag: YES saspam/new
:0:
- ^List-Id:
spamassassin/new ...
Regards Johann
Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
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Psalms 46:1 On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:20 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
When I install an imap server, I loose access to my present emails in ~/Mail and most imap-servers (dovecot included) seems to create a new structure within ~/Mail. ~/Maildir is a symlink to ~/Mail.
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail
However Dovecot expects the maildir to be in Maildir++ format. See "Directory Structure" in http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
You'll have to rename your existing mailboxes to the Maildir++ layout format, or Dovecot won't see them.
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Ander/new # completely optional
Don't ever add the "new" to procmailrc! See the "procmail problems" section in the wiki page.
Aupa!
El Martes, 4 de Julio de 2006 16:41, Marcus Rueckert escribió:
On 2006-07-04 16:20:35 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
- X-Spam-Flag: YES saspam/new
I am no procmail expert. but shouldnt it be: "saspam/" without the new part?
As far as i know, that procmail rules are creating a new mbox in $MAILDIR/Ander/new and another one in saspam/new
Try these rules:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ # you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Ander/ # completely optional :0:
- X-Spam-Flag: YES saspam/ :0:
- ^List-Id:
spamassassin/
And give a new chance to dovecot :)
Aaaaaaaaaagur.
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:59:41AM +0200, Joseba Torre wrote:
And give a new chance to dovecot :)
Thanks everyone for the help. I have tried again and a test installation is working at the moment - using evolution as a client. I still have problems with mutt and will try and sort that out over the weekend.
Regards Johann
Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
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