dovecot - Aug 2015 - How to import an mbox to an existing user as a new mailbox

On 3 Aug 2015, at 7:16, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:27, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings. I have a bunch of mbox files that I want to import
to an
>>>> existing user, each into a new mailbox. That is, I want to
import
>>>> the file project1.mbox to user Foo, into a newly-created
mailbox
>>>> called "Project 1". Is there a dovecot tool to do
this on the
>>>> server?
>>>
>>> do you have access to the file system of the mail storage? Can you 
>>> call doveadm on the server? What mail storage do you use now, 
>>> Maildir, mbox, ... ?
>>
>> Sorry for being unclear earlier. Yes, yes, mbox.
>
> copy project1.mbox to '/path/to/user/mail/storage/Project 1.mbox'
and
> make sure, the user has file system rights to access the file at all.
>
> Maybe, you need to add the new mailbox to the user's subscription 
> file, in order to have it show up.
After a week, I'm at this again. Now having read up on doveadm, I am 
trying the following:

   sudo doveadm import -u Foo mbox:/home/phoffman/project1.mbox "Project 
1" all

However, that gets the result:

   Initializing mail storage from mail_location parameter failed: mbox: 
mbox root directory can't be a file

Which bit am I missing here?

--Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman skrev den 2015-08-09 17:40:
> Initializing mail storage from mail_location parameter failed: mbox:
> mbox root directory can't be a file
> 
> Which bit am I missing here?
sudo doveadm import -u Foo mbox:/home/phoffman/project1/ "Project 1"
all

untested

On 9 Aug 2015, at 8:46, Benny Pedersen wrote:
> Paul Hoffman skrev den 2015-08-09 17:40:
>
>> Initializing mail storage from mail_location parameter failed: mbox:
>> mbox root directory can't be a file
>>
>> Which bit am I missing here?
>
> sudo doveadm import -u Foo mbox:/home/phoffman/project1/ "Project
1"
> all
>
> untested
When I try this:

    Fatal: Import namespace initialization failed: Initializing mail 
storage from mail_location parameter failed: 
mkdir(/home/phoffman/project1) failed: Permission denied 
(euid=1013(phoffprop) egid=1013(phoffprop) missing +w perm: 
/home/phoffman, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0755)

Does this error indicate that it is trying to write to the mbox file 
instead of reading it? If so, why?

--Paul Hoffman