On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 03:08 +0100, interfaSys sàrl wrote: > Hello, > > I thought mdbox was production ready, but it seems to me that (in 2.0.4) > it's quite broken. > > 1) The documentation only running this to convert from maildir to mdbox: > > *dsync mirror maildir:~/Maildir* > > but based on my experience and on posts on the mailing list, it's not > enough. > A namespace has to be defined and it's not clear whether / or . should > be used as a separator. > I tried with a dot first and the INBOX folders were empty. It seemed to > work better with /
It doesn't really matter, just as long as it's something. > 2) After having defined a namespace, running dsync again makes it spit > tons of errors > Error: Can't rename mailbox INBOX_28c716242e53784cc9030100d3b51c5c to > INBOX: Target mailbox already exists > Error: Mailboxes don't have unique GUIDs: > 4536121fce3ca14cf8c40000d3b51c5c is shared by INBOX and > INBOX_4536121fce3ca14cf8c40c What does "doveconf mail_location" say? It looks as if you're trying to convert from maildir:~/Maildir to maildir:~/Maildir, i.e. over itself. I thought about adding a check against that, but since it wasn't all that easy I thought maybe no one will actually run into that problem..
