[Dovecot] Problem importing mail from maildir directory

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23.2.2013, at 13.56, Thomas Koeller <thomas at koeller.dyndns.org> wrote:

> I am trying to import mail from a maildir directory into dovecot using the 'doveadm import' command:
> 
> bash-4.0$ doveadm -D import -u marion maildir:${HOME}/Mail '' ALL
..
> What I get is
> 
> - no mails are imported
> - no error messages are output
> - nothing is written to the system log
> 
> in other words, nothing happens at all. Any hints?

I guess Dovecot doesn't think there are any mails in that maildir. What does "ls -la ${HOME}/Mail" say?

You can also check what Dovecot sees in there:

doveadm -o mail=maildir:${HOME}/Mail mailbox status messages '*'