[Dovecot] Problem with huge IMAP Archive after Courier migration

Preacher preacher_net at gmx.net
Tue Jan 3 18:50:51 EET 2012


Yes i did, followed this guide you mentioned, it said that it found the 
3 mailboxes I have set-up in total, conversion  took only a few moments.
I guess the mail location was automaticall set correctly as the folder 
hierachy was displayed correctly

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 17:17 +0100, Preacher wrote:
>> So I forced to install the Debisn 7.0 packages with 2.0.15 and finally
>> got the server running, I also restarted the whole machine to empty caches.
>> But the problem I got was that in the huge folder hierarchy the
>> downloaded headers in the individual folders disappeared, some folders
>> showed a few very old messages, some none. Also some subfolders disappeared.
>> I checked this with Outlook and Thunderbird. The difference was, that
>> Thunderbird shows more messages (but not all) than Outlook in some
>> folders, but also none in some others. Outlook brought up a message in
>> some cases, that the connection timed out, although I set the timeout to
>> 60s.
> Did you run the Courier migration script?
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier
>
> Also explicitly setting mail_location would be a good idea.
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