On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 03:35 -0600, Anne Hammond wrote:

The files in the logs are "MBX mail folders", not "ASCII English text" as are the folders that can be read under Outlook.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this? This is a serious problem in switching.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/

Mailbox formats not supported by Dovecot:

  * mbx: UW-IMAP's own high performance mailbox format. One file
    contains all the mailboxes, so expunges may still be slow.

johannes

Do you mean some folders are in the UW-IMAP proprietary "mbx" format (essentially an mbox with extra indexing information included)? If so, you'll need to convert them to plain "mbox" files, using something like UW-IMAPs "mailutil" command:

mailutil copy <rooted unix path to folder> "#driver.unix:<rooted unix path to new folder>#'

e.g. mailutil copy pwd/mbx-folder "#driver.unix:pwd/mbox-folder"

then rename/delete the original folder and move the new one to replace it.

Hope this helps, Chris

Anne Hammond wrote:

We recently switch from up-imapd to dovecot But many users are reporting that they cannot access certain mail folders.

The log file has: imap(dws): Sep 14 00:06:19 Error: File isn't in mbox format: /home/research/dws/mail/TaskDL

The files in the logs are "MBX mail folders", not "ASCII English text" as are the folders that can be read under Outlook.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this? This is a serious problem in switching.

I've read the FAQ and documentation but it doesn't speak to this specific problem.

Thanks in advance, Anne Hammond Tech-X Corporation

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