similar to: Mailbox to maildir conversion

Hello, I am in the process of migrating a hosting setup from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. The protocols available to mail clients are IMAP and POP3 both before and after migration. I also wanted to change the mail storage format from MBOX to Maildir. However, at this point I hit a major snag with Dovecot and POP3 UIDL (unique identification listing for POP3 mailboxes). Several of the customers connecting

I have Julian Fitzell's migrateuser.sh script which uses mb2md-3.20.pl to convert a mailbox in mbox format to Maildir. I have set up a test user called "mailtest" which has mail as follows: /var/mail/mailtest /home/mailtest/mail/ Drafts MoreStuff Sent Items Stuff After the conversion I want all this user's mail to be in /home/mailtest/Maildir/

Hi. So I just moved my email over from mbox to maildir. For the most part the conversion went fine, but I had a bit of an odd thing happen when I accessed my mail through dovecot. It seems that when I ran mb2md to convert my mailboxes from mbox to maildir, I got a lot of messages created that look like 1142356176.000000.mbox:2,RS 1142356176.000421.mbox:2,S 1142356176.000001.mbox:2,S

I migrated from existing dovecot Maildir to dbox. After adding separator to the namespace it migrated all Inbox mails, but the other mailboxes like user-created ones and "Junk", "Sent" and so on has not been migrated. Any advice would be helpful, here is my dovconf: https://pastebin.com/rDSeBcLe My migration I made using: 1. Edit dovecot.conf with new mdbox and adding

Hi, we use a current Debian etch distribution as basis for our servers, which are running within a vmware server environment. Our current configuration consists of a dovecot server with imap enabled and a ldap based authentication. Mails are stored using the Maildir format on a central nfs store. We do not use any virtual mailboxes. Since upgrading from dovecot version 1.0.rc15 (debian

Hello list, I have a need for someone to point me in the right direction. Our old email system (system A) had an account that acted as a mailing list accumulator/archiver. This account was a member of every list and mail would be sent to it's address. The strange part is that email was not delivered to system A because there was a . (dot) forward alias to another machine (system B) that

Hi everyone I'm using isync 1.0.5 patched to do recursive folder listing and mirroring mail from an external party's IMAP server to a local Maildir, which will be accessed by Dovecot 2.0.9. In order to prevent IMAP clients from re-downloading their mail, when connecting to Dovecot, I'm busy writing a script to generate appropriate dovecot-uidlist and dovecot-uidvalidity files, per

Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly, but users gets duplicates since they selected "keep mail on server" I have googled for the

I have this very strange problem with Dovecot spitting out a file permissions error but further testing seems to show it being an inaccurate message. POP3(username): maildir: data ~/Maildir POP3(username): maildir++: root =/home/ssb201/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/ssb201/Maildir POP3(username): stat(/home/username/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(username)

Somehow in setting up quotas and sieve I somehow doubled my maildir. I noticed that when I logged into my webmail I didn't see the folders I created. I went to the actual location and noticed this. Mail location is set correctly in 10-mail.conf mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir So I went to /var/vmail/domain/user and saw: drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 4.0K Sep 11 22:08 .

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:51:48 -0500 Bill Shirley <bill at KnoxvilleChristian.org> wrote: > > I've gotten errors like this when it was actually a selinux denial. If you're running > selinux, check those logs too. > OK, this is getting serious -- mail not getting delivered. No, I am not running selinux. Here is the error I get in the maillog: Jan 24 16:42:49 mail dovecot:

hello i have a real stumper of an issue here and need some help! (config posted below) ok, so i'm building out a new mail system with v1.2.15 of dovecot on debian6 this new system is being designed to seamlessly migrate from an older dovecot mail system (v1.1.3). i have everything almost perfect but i've hit a wall which I need help on. so the existing mailboxes on the old server are

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

Thank you for the reply of my previous post (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-March/020716.html) now it works, but I have another question about migrating pop3 account (with leave mail on server) to maildir. On this post -> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011464.html you explain how to create dovecot-uidlist preserving UIDVALIDITY. Is there someone that have

I found a problem with maildir++ quota. When dovecot creates maildirsize file, it counts quota wrong. This is, how I reproduce a situation on version 1.2.0: First, I remove maildirsize file: # cd /var/mail/test # rm -f maildirsize # ls -la total 32 drwx--S--- 5 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 12 20:45 . drwxrwsr-x 3 root mbox 4096 Jul 12 20:39 .. drwx--S--- 2 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 9 20:45 cur -rw------- 1 mbox

Hello: I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients. The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the Maildir "repository" using a Python email client (POP3 client). I am trying to create the dovecot-uidlist file and maintain the "next UID" value

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.

Hello Adam, and the dovecot list Just a question, I hate to pollute the thread, so feel free to push these questions into a new thread if deemed necessary. So as you can guess I'm a bit of a newb here, so rather obvious questions are about to arrive.... As you are using GIT for your archive (which is a cool idea by the way) I'm sure you are well aware that not all files types play nicely

Hi We've been using dovecot successufly for few month. Previous setup : solaris 8, postfix+LDA, mbox + index on NFS (Netapp), 2500 accounts Everything shared overs NFS, multiple servers connect to index, mbox. mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/mbox/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes_dovecot/%u We had at first some issue with mbox locking, using lock_method = dotlock solve the issue.

-- SCENARIO -- I'm using dovecot-1.0.5-6 on opensuse 10.3. I use the maildir quota plugin, and I'm converting mailboxes from UW IMAP (mbox) to Maildir format using that mb2md.pl script (3.10 I guess). My migration happens like this: - if a user receives mail (before ever using the new mail system), it goes to his/her inbox, dovecot proceeds normally, like when a user exists, but