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

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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.