[Dovecot] Dovecot has no understandable configuration any more

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, forum wrote:

> I can connect to dovecot locally with an webmailer.
> But there is no listener process to be seen outside of the server?
>
> Locally this ports are working, but not outside:
>
> # netstat -tulpn | grep dove
> tcp6       0      0 :::110                  :::*                    LISTEN 
> 5741/dovecot
> tcp6       0      0 :::143                  :::*                    LISTEN 
> 5741/dovecot
> tcp6       0      0 :::993                  :::*                    LISTEN 
> 5741/dovecot
> tcp6       0      0 :::995                  :::*                    LISTEN 
> 5741/dovecot

Where is:

a) the listener on IPv4

b) the output of dovecot -n ?

> Is this a configuration problem inside dovecot?

That knows your doveconf -n output.

> Apr 30 11:14:57 imap(xxxx at yyyy): Error: Broken file 
> /srv/mail/yyyy/xxxx/.INBOX.dir.09/dovecot-uidlist line 1: Broken header 
> (uidvalidity = 0, next_uid=697)
>
> How can i recover this?

Does this error persists or do you see it just once per mailbox?
>
> Has someone an idea how to migrate the emails from charset ISO8859-1 to 
> UTF-8?

The mailbody? recode Latin1..utf8 < in > out, but IMAP defines, that you 
cannot change messages inplace. The client need to redownload them.

The directory name? Probably there is some tool. Otherwise:

for dir in ...; do
  mv "$dir" "$(echo "$dir"| recode latin1..utf8)"
done

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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