[Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 17:17 +0200, Kim Bisgaard wrote:

> Using this command ($1 is substituted for the user):
> dsync -u $1 -o "mail_location=maildir:/data/mail/$1/mdir" mirror 
> "mdbox:/data/mail/$1/mdbox"

I guess this should work.

> After having learned that I need to create the destination directory 
> first, I got this error:
> dsync(root): Fatal: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox 
> hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace)
> 
> Which I am afraid does not help me much - tried to set separator to '.' 
> in namespace but that only ended in lda/deliver refusing to deliver 
> mail. :-(

What error did lda give? You probably should add:

namespace {
  separator = /
  inbox = yes
}