[Dovecot] Converting UW MBX mail folder

Chris Wakelin
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:22:59 -0000

I think you need to specify the full path to the MBX file. Also, if it's
INBOX, you'll need to rename it to something else first and rename it
back afterwards.

So something like:

mailutil copy `pwd`/"Sys Admin" "#driver.unix/`pwd`/new"

should work.

Best Wishes,
Chris

Anne Hammond wrote:
> We converted from uw-imapd to dovecot but are still having
> problems with MBX mail folders.
>
> The user can't access this "MBX mail folder":
>
> [root at volt Resume's]# file "Sys Admin"
> Sys Admin: MBX mail folder
> [root at volt Resume's]# mailutil copy ./"Sys Admin"
'#driver.unix/new'
> Can't open mailbox ./Sys Admin: no such mailbox
> [root at volt Resume's]# mailutil copy -debug -verbose./SysAdminSave
> '#driver.unix/new'
> Can't open mailbox ./SysAdminSave: no such mailbox
>
> Could you tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration - Tech-X Corp

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