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On 3 Aug 2015, at 7:16, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote: >> On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:27, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >>> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> >>>> Greetings. I have a bunch of mbox files that I want to import to an >>>> existing user, each into a new mailbox. That is, I want to import >>>>

On 9 Aug 2015, at 8:46, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Paul Hoffman skrev den 2015-08-09 17:40: > >> Initializing mail storage from mail_location parameter failed: mbox: >> mbox root directory can't be a file >> >> Which bit am I missing here? > > sudo doveadm import -u Foo mbox:/home/phoffman/project1/ "Project 1" > all > > untested When I

On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:27, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> Greetings. I have a bunch of mbox files that I want to import to an >> existing user, each into a new mailbox. That is, I want to import the >> file project1.mbox to user Foo, into a newly-created mailbox called >> "Project 1". Is there a dovecot tool to do this

Greetings. I have a bunch of mbox files that I want to import to an existing user, each into a new mailbox. That is, I want to import the file project1.mbox to user Foo, into a newly-created mailbox called "Project 1". Is there a dovecot tool to do this on the server? --Paul Hoffman

On 08/09/15 13:36, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Paul Hoffman skrev den 2015-08-09 20:20: > >> Fatal: Import namespace initialization failed: Initializing mail >> storage from mail_location parameter failed: >> mkdir(/home/phoffman/project1) failed: Permission denied >> (euid=1013(phoffprop) egid=1013(phoffprop) missing +w perm: >> /home/phoffman, dir owned by

Hello, I have used mb2md for an individual user like this: su ~username cd ~ ./mb2md -m This converted /var/spool/mail/username mbox to /home/users/username/Maildir just as I expected. To convert 100s of users the same way would be a chore (su as each user for permissions, etc.). Is there a way to batch process all /var/spool/mail/$USER to /home/users/$USER/Maildir with the correct

Hi, I'm testing/debuging the migration from mbox to maildir in a mailserver running Dovecot 1.0alpha5. I migrated all 472715 emails(in a test server) and later noted that dovecot could not get the same flags/status of the emails as in the mbox. I was using perfect_maildir.pl and I think its not dovecot fault. Seems to me that perfect_maildir.pl convert the emails in a way that dovecot could

I am running dovecot 0.99. Everything works great; however, now I am looking at several different tools to convert mbox to Maildir. It seems the tools, mb2md.pl, perfect_maildir.pl, and others all do what they claim; however, when the messages are converted and they are stored in Maildir/cur, the email clients download these messages as new. This typically wouldn't be a problem;

Paul Hoffman skrev den 2015-08-09 20:20: > Fatal: Import namespace initialization failed: Initializing mail > storage from mail_location parameter failed: > mkdir(/home/phoffman/project1) failed: Permission denied > (euid=1013(phoffprop) egid=1013(phoffprop) missing +w perm: > /home/phoffman, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0755) > > Does this error indicate that it is trying

Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. So far so good. But I would like to convert my system to start using the Maildir format. How easy is this to accomplish? Can I keep

Thinking about going from mbox to maildir. Started with mbox way back when but thinking about making the conversion. The main reason is that I use rsync for backups and when these huge mailboxes are touched I have to copy the whole thing. With maildir I only copy the files that change. So - my questions is - what's the easiest way to make this happan. I assume there are conversion

Hello all I?ve installed a new Server with dovecot, started using it and had no problems until I noticed that I couldn?t create sub-sub-folders on my imap account, I?ve read for the past two days info on how to convert and I know now that instead of using mbox I need to user maildir, the issue is now to convert mbox to maildir, on the various searches I did, I found the convert wiki page

Hi, I am running dovecot 0.99-14 on a Fedora Core 2 machine. I had a few questions: 1) I wanted to upgrade to the dovecot-1.0 release. However, I am not sure if that's really required. dovecot-0.99-14 has been running very well for me for quite some time. Is there a real advantage to switching to the latest release. The reason I'm asking this is because: i) I don't have too

Hello, I'm upgrading my mail server from UW to Dovecot and I'd like to convert from mbox to maildir. I've successfully convert myself and a few other users with the mb2md script. All is well. My question is, I have somewhere around 500 users and about 122gb of mail folders to convert (this does not include the inbox at /var/mail). mb2md needs to be run as each user to convert.

Hi, Let me start with wishing you all the best for this new year, and I hope we'll see a lot of new features and not so much new bugs ;-) I'm trying to convert a number of PSTs to maildir. Just plain drag&drop in Outlook doesn't work (gives a very cryptic error message in a certain folder, but that folder is perfectly all right), and using the import option also barfs when

Paul Hoffman skrev den 2015-08-09 17:40: > Initializing mail storage from mail_location parameter failed: mbox: > mbox root directory can't be a file > > Which bit am I missing here? sudo doveadm import -u Foo mbox:/home/phoffman/project1/ "Project 1" all untested

TESTED AND RUNNING, MIGRATING from MBOX to MAILDIR, PRESERVE UID and OUTLOOK sees the email as downloaded. I hope this helps a lot of people out there. Feel free to post this somewhere else too. By: Horn Wijaya (hwijaya at nodens.biz) 8th May 2008 I have been searching for weeks for a foolproof method to migrate all my users mbox to maildir/dovecot without having the pain of downloading

Hello! Can anybody advise me nice and well-tested script for converting mbox to maildir format that saves all message flags ?

I'm using Dovecot 1.0.1-12 on Linux/Fedora 7 along with sendmail and procmail all running on the same box mail is stored in mbox format It's a small system with a half dozen or so e-mail "accounts". Each with 40-60MB of messages in various folders. I keep seeing messages about how mbox is antiquated and anybody with more than 100 messages etc should not use mbox, but use

Hi , I think the question has been asked before ... but I need to be adviced on what would be the best way to import microsoft PST's into Dovecot.. ? What software can I use.. can a anyone make any recommendations? even if one has to spend some money on some commecial software.. but it has to work.. so Im looking for someone who has tried from experience as ive tried some freeware or trial