dovecot - Mar 2007 - Convert plugin mbox to maildir has no effect

Convert plugin seems to have no effect with dovecot-1.0.rc26 and my settings.


When a user log, maildir creation is successful, but no mbox conversion occur.
New incoming mails are dropped into maildir, but I cant access those
in Mbox file.


I set the following in dovecot.con as describe on wiki.

mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/Maildir/%u
convert_mail: mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Any thoughts ? Is there a particular settings to use ? Anything wrong
with my setup ?


Logs :

dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] pop3-login: Login: user=<sts>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(sts): Effective uid=45842, gid=10008
dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(sts): maildir: data=/var/mail/Maildir/sts
dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(sts): maildir:
root=/var/mail/Maildir/sts, index=/var/mail/Maildir/sts, control=,
inboxdovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(sts): Disconnected: Logged out
top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0


dovecot -n :


protocols: pop3
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
shutdown_clients: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable:
/var/mail/bin/dovecot-1.0.rc26_devsol10/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: ready.
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/Maildir/%u
mail_debug: yes
mail_full_filesystem_access: yes
mmap_disable: yes
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
mail_executable: /var/mail/bin/dovecot-1.0.rc26_devsol10/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir: /var/mail/bin/dovecot-1.0.rc26_devsol10/lib/dovecot/pop3
pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  passdb:
    driver: passwd
  passdb:
    driver: shadow
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 384
plugin:
  convert_mail: mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
  convert_skip_broken_mailboxes: no

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:54 +0100, Sylvain Nemtua wrote:
> convert_mail: mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
This is most likely wrong. You're telling Dovecot that the user's
non-INBOX mailboxes are in /var/mail. If you have only inboxes, set
rather something like mbox:/some/empty/dir:INBOX=/var/mail/%
u:INDEX=MEMORY

Hmm. Since this seems to be so common problem, maybe I should make
"mbox::INBOX=/var/mail/%u" work too..
> Any thoughts ? Is there a particular settings to use ? Anything wrong
> with my setup ?
The real problem is that you didn't tell Dovecot to load the convert
plugin:

mail_plugins = convert

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On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:58:59 +0200 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:54 +0100, Sylvain Nemtua wrote:
> > convert_mail: mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> 
> This is most likely wrong. You're telling Dovecot that the user's
> non-INBOX mailboxes are in /var/mail. If you have only inboxes, set
> rather something like mbox:/some/empty/dir:INBOX=/var/mail/%
> u:INDEX=MEMORY
> 
> Hmm. Since this seems to be so common problem, maybe I should make
> "mbox::INBOX=/var/mail/%u" work too..
> 
> > Any thoughts ? Is there a particular settings to use ? Anything wrong
> > with my setup ?
> 
> The real problem is that you didn't tell Dovecot to load the convert
> plugin:
> 
> mail_plugins = convert
I have a similiar problem with dovecot 1.0.rc31.
Please note that /usr/dovecot is a link to /usr/local/dovecot on my system.

> /usr/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n
# /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap
listen: *:10143
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable: /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_log_format_elements: USER=%u IP=%r
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 100
last_valid_gid: 65534
mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/MailDir
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes
mail_executable: /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_plugins: convert
mail_plugin_dir: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap
imap_client_workarounds: netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
    args: dovecot
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
plugin:
  convert_mail: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
  convert_skip_broken_mailboxes: no

But this setup gives 
> service dovecot start
Starting IMAP-Service (dovecot 1.0.rc31)Eopen(/.temp.seymour.elsner.lan.5894.59e
ab08fc33e142b) failed: Permission denied
Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89
                                                           [FAILED]

Any pointer to overcome this problem welcome.


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