Hello, Thanks again - your reply will help greatly.
I have a rather more annoying problem at the moment, best described by my conversation in the dovecot IRC channel... i've telnetted to 110 on old server the "uidl" command shows 3 UIDLs uidl command also shows 3 UIDLs from new server... trouble is, despite seeing the same 3 UIDLs on the old mail server *and* the new mail server, when issuing the "uidl" command through port 110 after logging in, i just setup the account in my mail client against the old server, downloaded 3 msgs, changed the config for the new server, and it downloaded the same msgs again! ok, on the old server, in the received email, towards the bottom of the headers, i see this: X-UIDL: a=="!(3N"!&D'"!87D"! on the new server, in the duplicate received email, right at the top, before any other headers, i see this: X-UIDL: a=="!(3N"!&D'"!87D"! whaton earth is going on here... both now have the same X-UIDL, but are being downloaded separately! So... does anyone have any ideas? Thanks again! Richard. Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 15:39 +0000, Richard Hobbs wrote: >>> That's better actually, you don't then have to add those ~/mail/ >>> compabilitity namespaces. >> Well, i haven't added any ~/mail/ compatibility namespaces knowingly... >> i guess they might be in the default config (my version has been built >> for debian), but how would i check? >> >> Basically, the problem is that some users have their folders in >> "~/mail/" and others have their folders in "~/". > > This is kind of what I meant by the compatibility namespaces. If some > users have ~/mail/ and whatelse, you'll probably want to add such > namespaces to Dovecot. See > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP > >> I want to convert both, and also and up with a standard location in the >> maildir setup. I guess the best way to do this is to just copy >> everyone's mailboxes from "~/" into "~/mail/" before i run the >> conversion, right? > > That should work, as long as you can find all the mailboxes (or are all > files in ~/ mailboxes?) > >> As long as people don't object to their folders >> potentially changing places within their IMAP client, everything will be >> OK, right? > > With the compatibility namespace it should be pretty transparent to > clients. Also you'll probably want to set separator=/ in all the > namespaces. > -- Richard Hobbs (IT Specialist) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Cambridge Research Laboratory Email: richard.ho...@crl.toshiba.co.uk Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Tel: +44 1223 436999 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
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