On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 12:36 +0200, Egbert wrote: > 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?
Convert plugin wants to rename the mail root directory. It won't work nicely unless you have something like /var/mail/<user>/mail/ under which all the mailboxes are. Anyway, I'd suggest using http://dovecot.org/tools/mb2md.pl instead of convert plugin. That'll preserve stuff better.
