dovecot - Oct 2004 - dovecot and (no) new incomming mail - migration from wu-imapd

Hi,

I recently installed dovecot 0.99 on a fedora core 1 Server which used 
the wu-imap-server.

dovecot starts and I can subscribe to my old imapfolders, but if I send 
mails to my account, this new mail arent downloaded. If I quit Mozilla 
and restart Mozilla, the recently send mails are in my inbox.

We use also a webmailsystem, so I could verify that the mails are in the 
inbox without relogging in.

This phenome is not showing up by all my imap accounts.

I'm testing with mozilla 1.7.3 and 1.8a4 on a mac os x 10.3.5 Client.

The Inbox-folder for the "defect" account is showing in italic and
grey
ghosted (in the folder list), the folder in the working account is normal.

A user using Netscape 7.1 on a Windows XP Client has also no Problems....

Any Ideas?

regards

G?tz Reinicke
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IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet

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On 8.10.2004, at 18:44, G?tz Reinicke wrote:
> dovecot starts and I can subscribe to my old imapfolders, but if I 
> send mails to my account, this new mail arent downloaded. If I quit 
> Mozilla and restart Mozilla, the recently send mails are in my inbox.
..
> The Inbox-folder for the "defect" account is showing in italic
and
> grey ghosted (in the folder list), the folder in the working account 
> is normal.
Where are your mails stored? ~/mail? Sounds a bit like you have 
~/mail/inbox (or Inbox or INBOX or whatever) file/directory which 
Dovecot conflicts with the real INBOX. Deleting that should help.
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--On Friday, October 08, 2004 5:44 PM +0200 G?tz Reinicke 
<goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:
> I recently installed dovecot 0.99 on a fedora core 1 Server which used
> the wu-imap-server.
I did the same when moving to FC2. I have this setting in dovecot.conf:

default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

Note that UW-IMAP roots your mail folder hierarchy at ~, while this Dovecot 
setting roots it at ~/mail, so you'll need to change your client 
subscriptions to eliminate the "mail" from the top of the hierarchy.
Or you
could move the whole tree to ~/mail/mail, but I think that's a worse hack.

I'm using Mulberry for my client, and I set a "wildcard cabinet"
of "*"
under "Check Favourites" so that my entire folder hierarchy gets
checked
periodically. This is orders of magnitude faster with Dovecot than it was 
with UW-IMAP. I'd guess about 2 seconds to check over 100 folders.