[Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

[Kim Bisgaard]

  On 31-08-2010 21:07, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:49 +0200, Kim Bisgaard wrote:
>>> What error did lda give? You probably should add:
>> Command output: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file
>> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf line 54: Unknown setting: separator )
> That looks like it wasn't inside namespace {} or something else was
> weird. Anyway, you should have gotten that same error simply by running
> "doveconf" (or "dovecot", or any Dovecot tool really).
>
>> (maildir uses '.' (I think)) so I only added:
>> namespace {
>> separator = .
>> }
> You need inbox=yes there too (or maybe it's added there by default if
> you have only one namespace, can't remember).
>
>>> namespace {
>>>     separator = /
>>>     inbox = yes
>>> }
>> Intuitively I would have expected '.' and not '/' (default (m)dbox),
>> since I'm converting between maildir (.) and dbox(/) - right?
> For dsync it doesn't matter if it's '.' or '/', both will work fine. But
> if you have existing IMAP clients then you should preserve the separator
> or they could become confused.
>
Just tried to do it again - I think first time was an error of mine - 
did not remove enough comments '#' from the config file - sorry! :-[ .

This seems to work:
namespace {
   inbox = yes
   location =
   prefix =
   separator = .
}

Thanks!!
Kim