[Dovecot] mbox to maildir conversion does not work

[Scott Silva]

on 2-28-2008 10:02 AM Scott Bruce spake the following:
> Hello,
> 
> I have got it working using
> convert_mail = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> and it converts fine to maildir.
> 
> The one problem that I am having now is that client downloads some of
> the emails again, after conversion.
> 
> Let me described the situation,
> I'm trying to migrate from qpopper pop3 to dovecot pop3, which works 
> with  no problems, using the 'pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes' setting. And
> 'mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u'. At this point no email 
> is downloaded twice.
> 
> But when I go to convert the /var/mail/%u to /var/imap/%u/.imap/, using
> the convert mail plugin, only the mail the has been delivered once 
> before using the dovecot pop3 deamon is been sent again, not the email 
> that was set using the qpopper deamon. All of the mail is being converted.
> 
> Do you know why this would be?
> 
> What it looks like I will be doing is going strait from qpopper to 
> dovecot converting to maildir, but I was hoping to use dovecot with the 
> mboxs as an intermittent stage.
> 
> Thank you again for your time,
> Scott
You might need to set dovecot to use the qpopper UIDL format, it you can find 
what it is.

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