[Dovecot] Re: Courier to Dovecot Maildir conversion

[Roger Weeks]

We went through a courier to dovecot conversion.

There are a couple of things that might be causing this problem.

1.  Dovecot namespaces
2.  Client configuration

Your namespaces might not be taking into account the fact that  
courier prefixed all files and directories in the maildir with a dot  
(.).

You can get around this a couple of ways.  We had almost no IMAP  
clients under courier, so I renamed everything in our IMAP client  
directories away from .files and .directories, and used a default  
namespace without dots.

Also some clients like Apple Mail needed an IMAP prefix like INBOX.  
to work with courier.  I had to remove those with the dovecot  
namespace I set up.

--
Roger J. Weeks
Systems & Network Administrator
Mendocino Community Network

On Mar 31, 2006, at 12:29 PM, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:

> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:07:56 -0400
> From: "Jeff S." <go4broke at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Dovecot] Courier to Dovecot Maildir converstion
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
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> Hello,
>
> I am running Dovecot 0.99 on OpenSuse 10.0.  Previously, I was running
> courier IMAP with vpopmail on Suse 9.3.  In the process of the  
> change, I
> decided to sing MySQL to authenticate the users, provide home dir,  
> uid and
> gid.
>
> I tar'ed up the old mail directories, moved them to the new server,  
> added a
> new user and group to own the files, set the files uid/gid to match  
> the
> values in the db.  Next, I followed the Migration directions on
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration.  I can successfully authenticate  
> the new
> users, have no errors in the log file but when I am logged in I  
> only see the
> Inbox.  There should be other folders as well as mail in the  
> inbox.  No
> errors in the log files.
>
> Any ideas?