[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Rob Campbell]

Ok, that worked.  I moved /home/%u/.mailboxlist to /home/%
u/mail/.subscriptions and now I can see all the folders under the IMAP
section.  That was too easy.  None of the pages I viewed said that.
There were a few pages with people posting their scripts to convert and
make everything work but I just didn't feel comfortable doing all of
that.  This was much simpler.  Now I just have to see what happens as
far as when I start receiving email that are filtered to the mailboxes
and everything should be set.  Thank you very much.  This has been a
headache. 

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:38 +1100, Curtis Maloney wrote:
> poohba at blkpoohba.dyndns.org wrote:
> >> I take it you're not using Dovecot for POP3, then?  If not, any 
> >> particular reason why not?
> >>
> > Yes I am using Dovecot for POP3, it wasn't working before but it started 
> > working.  I changed: default_mail_env = 
> > mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u  to something else and then 
> > restarted dovecat service then changed it back and restarted the service 
> > and it would then allow me to get pop.
> 
> What did you change it to, out of interest?
> 
> If you can get your mail via POP3, then you should be able to get the mail via 
> IMAP, assuming it's enabled in the config file.
> 
> What happens when you try to connect to IMAP?  Are there any messages in the 
> log files?
> 
> >> 2) Which version of Dovecot?
> >     0.99.11
> 
> This is a fairly old version, now... you might want to see if there are 
> updates to 0.99.13
> 
> >> 3) What are you migrating from?
> > 
> >     I kind of migrated from FC1 but It was a fresh install i just
> >     transfered /home/* from the old hd to the new one.
> 
> Ah.  As I understand it, FC1 shipped with Cyrus-IMAP or something.  You may 
> have to clean up some of the subscription files.  Check on the Dovecot WIKI 
> for details, such as http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration
> 
> You may also want to check http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes if you 
> still have troubles.
> 
> 
> --
> Curtis Maloney