[Dovecot] Maildir woes

[RYAN vAN GINNEKEN]

I have posted this message serveral times but have not recieved a
response i will attrubute this to the holiday season.  However i have
been working on this project the whole time.  I have looked in the
achrives month by month ( is there a seachable kind?) and have found
nothing relating to my problem with imapdir.  I hate to beg but please help.

have noticed that dovecot seems to create direcotories .drafts .trash
.sent items but my mail from binc is stored in Drafts Sent and Trash is
there a simple fix for this as i have looked everywhere.


have set this in my conf file

default_mail_env = maildir:/usr/home/%u/IMAPdir
i also tried this
default_mail_env = maildir:/usr/home/%u/IMAPdir/
i even tried this
default_mail_env = maildir:/usr/home/%u/IMAPdir/INBOX


get this error from my mail client

The current command did not succeed.  The mail server responded:.


get this in the logs

map-login: Dec 30 16:04:06 Info: Login: test [192.168.0.1]
imap-login: Dec 30 16:04:20 Info: Login: rmvg [192.168.0.1]
imap-login: Dec 30 16:04:20 Info: Login: maillist [192.168.0.1]
imap-login: Dec 30 16:04:21 Info: Login: rmvg [192.168.0.1]
imap-login: Dec 30 16:04:21 Info: Login: test [192.168.0.1]
imap-login: Dec 30 16:04:21 Info: Login: luck [192.168.0.1]
imap-login: Dec 30 16:04:21 Info: Login: moshi [192.168.0.1]
imap(test): Dec 30 16:04:24 Error: mkdir(/usr/home/test/IMAPdir/.Trash)
failed: No such file or directory

I read the generic stuff you sent to me again but i cannot see anything
that relates to this specific problem.


Timo Sirainen wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 14:33 -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
>  
>
>>I am using Freebsd 4.10stable, postfix 2.1.5 with SASL and TLS,  
>>procmail version 3.22 and binc IMAP 1.2.8 binc uses IMAPdir style mail
>>boxes, Spam assassin, and ClamAV.  Wish to convert to dovecot but your 
>>program does not support IMAPdir does it??? also i have many user 
>>accounts that i wish to use untouched if possible.  I guess this is a 
>>migration question for the most part i am switching to dovecot because 
>>of its ability to use postgre database files and real log file.  Is 
>>there a simple way to achieve this without losing any of my users mail?
>>    
>>
>
>IMAPdir is almost fully compatible with Maildir++ layout which Dovecot
>uses. I think the only somewhat problematic part is if users had used
>dots in mailbox names, but even then they're not lost.
>
>Another difference which clients would see after switching to Dovecot is
>that hierarchy separator changes into '.' instead of '/'. Some clients
>may get confused because of that. With Dovecot 1.0-tests you could
>configure it to use '/' as well.
>
>There are some generic documents about migrating to Dovecot in Wiki:
>
>http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration
>http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes
>
>  
>