[Dovecot] Can't send mail through new server

[Udo Rader]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 22:51 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I thought I had just about got the old server to the point of being 
> switched off.  I have been reading from the dovecot server for a couple 
> of days, and this evening I switched the 'sending' to the new server as 
> well - but I couldn't get anything out.  I got:
> 
> Error while uploading message
> 
> Could not upload the message dated Wed Feb 1 21:2:56 2006 from Anne 
> Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> with subject "xxx" on the server.
> 
> The destination folder was sent-mail, which has the URL .
> 
> The error message from the server communication is here:
> 
> APPEND failed:  Can't open append mailbox : Read-only file system

at first glance I would say that you have a read-only file
system ... :-)

you are migrating from one server to the other ... can it then be that
you have somehow mounted your old stuff only readonly?

what does a plain

% mount 

give for your new box?

regards

Udo Rader

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