[Dovecot] doveadm import : Error creating new mailbox

[Steffen]

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Administrator BCS wrote:
> Citeren Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:
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>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, Administrator BCS wrote:
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>>>> mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n
>> 
>>>> userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver =
>>>> sql }
>> 
>> BTW: What home directory are you using? It is not recommended to
>> run with mail (dir) == home (dir). Insofar, it might be better to
>> add the pseudo standard Maildir to mail_location.
> 
> I don't know if I fully understand your question. I am trying to
> import mail from an old system running mbox (inbox in
> /var/mail/username and the rest in /home/username/mail/), to a new
> system running Postfix/Dovecot with virtual mailboxes for separate
> domains.

I'd suggested to _not_ import, but migrate the messages.

However, doveadm import -u user maildir:... "" all
works for me, but my target user already has ~/Maildir/{new,cur,tmp}.

> So the mail users on the new system do not have a linux account
> anymore and therefore no homedir either.

Well, maybe you could call the "homedirectory" in the sense of Dovecot
as "directory where to put files relatively to by default', see
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation sec. "homeless useres".

> As you suggested earlier, copying to maildir converted box manually
> to the vmail folders and editing the subscriptions file is a way to
> get it to work but it is very labour intensive.

I though mb2md supports "-d destdir", and to patch subscribe :

cd <<maildir>>
echo INBOX >subscribe
ls -d .??* |grep '^\.' | sed -e 's/^\.//' >>subscribe

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Steffen
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