[Dovecot] Convert plugin mbox to maildir has no effect

[Frank Elsner]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:39:14 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 16:15 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:06:02 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 23:26 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > > > Apr  8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox directory .gnome2_private
> > > 
> > > Maildir uses "." as hierarchy separator, so this filename is invalid.
> > > I'm not sure if convert_skip_broken_mailboxes=yes should just cause
> > > these to be ignored, but for now it doesn't..
> > 
> > Could this behaviour be changed?
> 
> Won't do anything to v1.0. Maybe for v1.0.1. Anyway already implemented
> to CVS HEAD (which will become v1.1):

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

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> > | plugin {
> > |   convert_mail = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> > |   convert_skip_broken_mailboxes=yes
> > 
> > 
> > Currently this doesn't work :-(
> 
> You mean it doesn't work because you have these dot-directories? It
> would work if you didn't have them..

Tell this to the ".gnome*" and similiar people :-)


--Frank