Patrick - South Valley Internet spake the following on 8/20/2007 3:21 PM: > Hi all, > > I've read so much information on this that I'm a little confused as to > what to follow. Here's what's going on: > > We just migrated away from our AIX machines which were running Postfix > and UW-IMAP. We're now running Postfix with Dovecot. I already > converted everyone's mbox file to maildir, but now I'm having a little > troubles with how to exactly populate their IMAP folders. People are > saying they cannot see their folders. These 'folders' they are talking > about can be found in their /home directory. > > I have the following URLs I've been looking at: > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat > http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/maildir-migration.txt > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-June/023757.html > > What would be the suggested method to convert them? So far I understand > that I need to somehow populate the /home/USERNAME/Maildir/subscriptions > file with the items located in /home/USERNAME/.mailboxlist and then I > don't know what to do from there. I don't know if I need to incorporate > a Dovecot plugin, or if there is a script I can run to do this for me. > > Since this is a live server, I would prefer to test on a single account > before I run a plugin that would effect all users globally. > > Any help would be very appreciated - thanks in advance! > > Patrick > > > Have you tried to edit their subscriptions file? Or log in with a client to one of the accounts and use its subscribe feature? With the second method, you could get an idea of what the subscriptions layout is and use a copy / sed script to fix each one.
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