dovecot - Feb 2006 - Can't send mail through new server

I thought I had just about got the old server to the point of being 
switched off.  I have been reading from the dovecot server for a couple 
of days, and this evening I switched the 'sending' to the new server as 
well - but I couldn't get anything out.  I got:

Error while uploading message

Could not upload the message dated Wed Feb 1 21:2:56 2006 from Anne 
Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> with subject "xxx" on the
server.

The destination folder was sent-mail, which has the URL .

The error message from the server communication is here:

APPEND failed:  Can't open append mailbox : Read-only file system

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I also got messages like:

Error while retrieving messages from the server.

Unable to open folder sent-mail.  The server replied:  SELECT failed:  
Mailbox open failed, aborted:  Read-only file system.
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I like to save the sent-mail and trash on the server.  ~/Maildir has all 
the folders including sent-mail and trash.  I have the same UID on both 
boxes.  What has gone wrong?

Anne
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On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 22:51 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I thought I had just about got the old server to the point of being 
> switched off.  I have been reading from the dovecot server for a couple 
> of days, and this evening I switched the 'sending' to the new
server as
> well - but I couldn't get anything out.  I got:
> 
> Error while uploading message
> 
> Could not upload the message dated Wed Feb 1 21:2:56 2006 from Anne 
> Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> with subject "xxx" on
the server.
> 
> The destination folder was sent-mail, which has the URL .
> 
> The error message from the server communication is here:
> 
> APPEND failed:  Can't open append mailbox : Read-only file system
at first glance I would say that you have a read-only file
system ... :-)

you are migrating from one server to the other ... can it then be that
you have somehow mounted your old stuff only readonly?

what does a plain

% mount 

give for your new box?

regards

Udo Rader

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