i've been fine with gnus and dovecot for several months now on archlinux. yesterday i switched to debian and transferred my config files as well as my emails. the news works fine, however the emails didn't.
i did not transfer the dovecot files: dovecot.index dovecot-keywords dovecot-uidvalidity dovecot.index.cache dovecot.mailbox.log dovecot-uidvalidity.4d24da34 dovecot.index.log dovecot-uidlist dovecot-uidvalidity.4db888fb instead, i saw they were being formed when i accessed my inbox. the number of emails was shown to be 0. when i did /O to get the old ones, i saw the correct 57000 number, but though i could see the headers, i couldn't see any content because it told me the items had expired (even though the files were all there in cur/). so after much fiddling (none of which worked), i transferred the old dovecot files into Maildir and now everything seems to work fine. what this suggests is that the dovecot files are the only way i can access the content - i guess because it's all indexed by dovecot. what i don't understand is why dovecot didn't seem to update the files to reflect what was contained in the folders even after i made the appropriate changes in the dovecot.conf file ... or is there some way to manually get dovecot to do this. is there an alternative to dovecot ie courier which will provide me with a suitable imap program for the imap-shell-program? -- in friendship, prad _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
