Dovecot version: 1.0.rc7 OS: Red Hat Fedora Core 6 CPU: x86 Filesystem: Linux I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 install and copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files. Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about? Thanks! Scott
L. Scott Loftin wrote:> Dovecot version: 1.0.rc7 > > I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a > ... > Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* > files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?FC4 used the older 0.99 dovecot installs (0.99.14 it looks like), you will need to read the Wiki and docs, and migrate your Dovecot config to the newer style -- once you do that, I bet everything will start working as intended. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot Before even starting, the first thing I'd do is upgrade to the actual 1.0.0 release, there were... 25(?) further release candidates beyond rc7. Axel has an RPM ready for you: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/dovecot/ hth, -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:17 -0400, L. Scott Loftin wrote:> I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a > clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to > handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 install and > copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is > not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold > new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files.There are various reasons why mailboxes aren't showing. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes lists some of them.> Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* > files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?.imap* files however have nothing to do with mail not showing up. There's no need to convert or do anything to them. If anything you can just delete them. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070509/6d028e3f/attachment.bin>
Thanks for the quick answers. My problem isn't about new email now showing up after the FC4-->FC6 upgrade. It's about trying to get to old email (that existing under FC4 (Dovecot 0.99.14) not being accessible in any way under FC6 (Dovecot 1.0.0). If I delete the .imap.* files from 0.99.14, I lose all the old email in the folders. Email under 1.0.0 is working perfectly (new mail shows up and is perfectly readable by the client). I just need to find a way to get back to the "old" email from 0.99.14's .imap* files. Thanks! Scott -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:49 AM To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] .imap files On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:17 -0400, L. Scott Loftin wrote:> I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 wasa> clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to > handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 installand> copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is > not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold > new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files.There are various reasons why mailboxes aren't showing. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes lists some of them.> Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* > files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about?.imap* files however have nothing to do with mail not showing up. There's no need to convert or do anything to them. If anything you can just delete them.