[Dovecot] Convert plugin

Donny Brooks dbrooks at mdah.state.ms.us
Fri Oct 15 21:15:55 EEST 2010


  On 10/15/2010 1:10 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 22:01 +0200, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:
>> I'm trying the example from the wiki:
>>
>> plugin {
>>     convert_mail = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%n
>> }
>>
>> but have still not succeded.
> Did you figure it out already? The problem is that you have no ~/mail/
> directory, convert plugin doesn't then do anything because it thinks the
> mails are already converted. Either you need to create those dirs, or
> maybe it's easier to just use one of the scripts and do all the users at
> once some weekend.
>
>
Be sure your mail in /home/username is stored in mail and not Mail. 
Otherwise change the ~/mail to ~/Mail and it will work. This is what 
mine was. Also check the /var/mail/%n portion. Mine was stored in 
/var/spool/mail/%n.

Donny B.


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