Op 30-7-2010 0:07, Daniel Luttermann schreef:
Egbert wrote on 29.07.2010:
Hi,
I'm trying to convert users from a sendmail server to a postfix/dovecot
server. All works fine but one of the last things is to rescue the
messages in /var/mail/<user> on the old server. This seems very
straitforward using the convert plugin but with the settings from the
wiki, nothing happens when the user logs in. Do I need a private
namespace for this as suggested elsewhere in the wiki?
No hint in the logfile? Maybe a permission problem or Dovecot can't
find any emails? If nothing is logged maybe it helps when you set
"mail_debug=yes" in dovecot.conf?
Btw: it seems that in the upcoming Dovecot 2.0 version there's no
convert plugin available anymore - with 2.0 you can use "dsync" to
convert emails between different mailbox formats.
--
Daniel
Yeah, the obvious place to look. There I found out that the plugin looks
for a direcory in /var/mail/ called <user> and in that directory a
mailfile called 'inbox' is expected.
So I have now the convert in imap and pop3 chapters of dovecot.conf and
enabled the plugin in the plugin section:
protocol imap {
mail_plugins = convert
}
protocol pop3 {
mail_plugins = convert
}
plugin {
convert_mail = mbox:/var/mail/%u
}
So things finally start to work. Only the rename of the /var/mail/<user>
directory doesn't work yet. Wrong owner. I made /var/mail owned by
vmail:vmail but that is not good. Maybe it should be owned by dovecot.
Who is the owner of the convert process?
EJ
