Dovecot version: 1.0.rc7
OS: Red Hat Fedora Core 6
CPU: x86
Filesystem: Linux
I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 install and copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files.
Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?
Thanks!
Scott
L. Scott Loftin wrote:
Dovecot version: 1.0.rc7
I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a ... Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?
FC4 used the older 0.99 dovecot installs (0.99.14 it looks like), you will need to read the Wiki and docs, and migrate your Dovecot config to the newer style -- once you do that, I bet everything will start working as intended.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot
Before even starting, the first thing I'd do is upgrade to the actual 1.0.0 release, there were... 25(?) further release candidates beyond rc7. Axel has an RPM ready for you:
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/dovecot/
hth, -te
-- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
Thanks for the quick note Troy. I did the 1.0.0 upgrade while ago. Again, I did a fresh install of FC6 over the weekend (not an upgrade), so the dovecot config file is "new". I guess I'm trying to see how to convert or somehow migrate he actual contents of the old .imap* (user email) files to the new dovcot.* files. Any ideas?
Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Troy Engel Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:15 PM To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] .imap files
L. Scott Loftin wrote:
Dovecot version: 1.0.rc7
I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a ... Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?
FC4 used the older 0.99 dovecot installs (0.99.14 it looks like), you will need to read the Wiki and docs, and migrate your Dovecot config to the newer style -- once you do that, I bet everything will start working as intended.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot
Before even starting, the first thing I'd do is upgrade to the actual 1.0.0 release, there were... 25(?) further release candidates beyond rc7. Axel has an RPM ready for you:
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/dovecot/
hth, -te
-- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
L. Scott Loftin wrote:
dovecot config file is "new". I guess I'm trying to see how to convert or somehow migrate he actual contents of the old .imap* (user email) files to the new dovcot.* files. Any ideas?
This unfortunately is an mbox thing, and I've never used anything except Maildir; it sounds like the files from .imap/ are usable, you just have to use the location settings to set it up. I'll have to let an mbox expert give better info than mine. :)
Try looking at these two pages: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox
-te
-- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:17 -0400, L. Scott Loftin wrote:
I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 install and copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files.
There are various reasons why mailboxes aren't showing. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes lists some of them.
Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?
.imap* files however have nothing to do with mail not showing up. There's no need to convert or do anything to them. If anything you can just delete them.
Thanks for the quick answers. My problem isn't about new email now showing up after the FC4-->FC6 upgrade. It's about trying to get to old email (that existing under FC4 (Dovecot 0.99.14) not being accessible in any way under FC6 (Dovecot 1.0.0). If I delete the .imap.* files from 0.99.14, I lose all the old email in the folders.
Email under 1.0.0 is working perfectly (new mail shows up and is perfectly readable by the client). I just need to find a way to get back to the "old" email from 0.99.14's .imap* files.
Thanks! Scott
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:49 AM To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] .imap files
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:17 -0400, L. Scott Loftin wrote:
I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 install and copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files.
There are various reasons why mailboxes aren't showing. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes lists some of them.
Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?
.imap* files however have nothing to do with mail not showing up. There's no need to convert or do anything to them. If anything you can just delete them.
L. Scott Loftin wrote:
Thanks for the quick answers. My problem isn't about new email now showing up after the FC4-->FC6 upgrade. It's about trying to get to old email (that existing under FC4 (Dovecot 0.99.14) not being accessible in any way under FC6 (Dovecot 1.0.0). If I delete the .imap.* files from 0.99.14, I lose all the old email in the folders.
Email under 1.0.0 is working perfectly (new mail shows up and is perfectly readable by the client). I just need to find a way to get back to the "old" email from 0.99.14's .imap* files.
You can't. That is not where the mail is stored.
Dominic
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Dominic Marks
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L. Scott Loftin
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Timo Sirainen
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Troy Engel