[Dovecot] importing plain mboxes to dovecot maildirs

Is there way to import old plain mboxes via dsync? It complains about lack of index files: ponto:(admin)~>dsync mirror mbox:~/mail dsync(admin): Error: Failed to sync mailbox sent-mail: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files dsync(admin): Error: Failed to sync mailbox saved-message

Re: [Dovecot] importing plain mboxes to dovecot maildirs

dsync(admin): Error: Failed to sync mailbox sent-mail-feb-2012: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files Well, you can work around if by letting it create indexes. Hm. Why exactly can't it create indexes? Do you have some setting disabling them? indexes never existed because these m

[Dovecot] INBOX cant be created

Inbox does not exists on disk, but following command sequence will not create it. 2 select INBOX 2 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX 3 create INBOX 3 NO [ALREADYEXISTS] Mailbox already exists: INBOX i think its bug

Re: [Dovecot] INBOX cant be created

doveadm does not works too: sudo doveadm mailbox create -u admin INBOX doveadm(admin): Error: Can't create mailbox INBOX: Permission denied sudo doveadm mailbox create -u admin INBOX.2 (works)

Re: [Dovecot] INBOX cant be created

doveadm(admin): Error: Can't create mailbox INBOX: Permission denied The INBOX exists but has a wrong owner. nope ponto# cd /var/mail ponto# mv admin/ admin.X ponto# doveadm mailbox create -u admin INBOX doveadm(admin): Error: Can't create mailbox INBOX: Permission denied but it might be that

[Dovecot] delivering with maildrop

Can somebody provide maildrop syntax for using deliver-lda as final delivery program during sorting mail in user mailfilter? i mean replacement for "to" statement if ( /^(To|Cc):.*dovecot@dovecot.org/:h ) { to $MAIL/.dovecot/ }

Re: [Dovecot] delivering with maildrop

I presume he wants to filter first with maildir, then actually deliver using the dovecot delivery agent? yes In answer to the OP: read the maildropex man pages, but you have several options, eg: Yes found that dovecot-lda -m will do it nicely. echo "mail message Test " | /usr/local/libexec/do

[Dovecot] create mailboxes in /var/mail via doveadm

what usedid is used by doveadm for creating mailboxes? can it be setup to run as dovecot:mail? cant create mailbox from command line ponto# ls -ld /var/mail drwxrwxr-x 8 root mail 24 Apr 5 20:35 /var/mail ponto# doveadm mailbox create -u jboss INBOX doveadm(jboss): Error: Can't create mailb

[Dovecot] improve error messages with quotes

I propose to improve error messages but inserting quotes. I spent good time until I looked into source code to find right meaning of error message. I would like them in following format: namespace configuration error no 'hidden=no' namespaces

Re: [Dovecot] what best for anti-spam filter?

> what anti-spam for you used ? dspam?spammassian? amavisd-new ? what is > best ? i got best results with dspam + graylist. but dspam is not scalable solution, it works only if you do not have many users.

Re: [Dovecot] what best for anti-spam filter?

The RICE university is using dspam on about 65K mailboxes without issues: http://it.rice.edu/spam.aspx it works with such large number of user only if you use group shared spam/ham dictionaries.