Hi, I'm trying to migrate from uw imapd to dovecot. I'm having two problems at the moment. 1. uw imapd grabs new mail from /var/mail/user and then shoves it into ~/mbox, is there any way to make dovecot handle this kind of setup or am I better off merging ~/mbox back into /var/mail/user? If merging is better are what tools are best for this? 2. While I did have have everything in ~/Mail coming up dovetail stopped working and logs the following error: syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap-login: Login: haakon [192.168.0.107] syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap(haakon): Failed to create storage with data: ~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/haakon syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 dovecot: child 10417 (imap) returned error 89 any idea what is causing this? Regards, Craig.
On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 16:17 Europe/Helsinki, Craig wrote:> 1. uw imapd grabs new mail from /var/mail/user and then shoves it into > ~/mbox, is there any way to make dovecot handle this kind of setup or > am I better off merging ~/mbox back into /var/mail/user? If merging is > better are what tools are best for this?There's no way currently. And I'm not sure what's the point of that anyway, so I don't really have plans to do that. Wasn't this mbox moving optional in UW-IMAP too? For merging you could just use cat :) cat /var/mail/user >> /home/user/mbox, mv /home/user/mbox /var/mail/user And to avoid losing mails you should stop SMTP and IMAP servers..> 2. While I did have have everything in ~/Mail coming up dovetail > stopped working and logs the following error: > > syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap-login: Login: haakon > [192.168.0.107] > syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap(haakon): Failed to create storage > with data: ~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/haakonTry default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Although it should have worked without the mbox: prefix too. Maybe some permission problem.
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Craig wrote:> 1. uw imapd grabs new mail from /var/mail/user and then shoves it into > ~/mbox, is there any way to make dovecot handle this kind of setup or am > I better off merging ~/mbox back into /var/mail/user? If merging is > better are what tools are best for this? >It does that? I've never seen that kind of behavior. Perhaps your package is compiled with some weird options (if you didn't compile it yourself).