[Dovecot] Migrating to dovecot

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 4 17:35:03 EEST 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:20 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> When I install an imap server, I loose access to my present emails in
> ~/Mail and most imap-servers (dovecot included) seems to create a new
> structure within ~/Mail.  ~/Maildir is a symlink to ~/Mail.

default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail

However Dovecot expects the maildir to be in Maildir++ format. See
"Directory Structure" in http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir

You'll have to rename your existing mailboxes to the Maildir++ layout
format, or Dovecot won't see them.

>     DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Ander/new          # completely optional

Don't ever add the "new" to procmailrc! See the "procmail problems"
section in the wiki page.
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