Hello all,

I am trying to migrate existing email mailboxes from my mac (OS X 10.3) to my FC 5 running dovecot.

I was able to successfully get dovecot to work using imap over ssl. It was able to recognize my /var/mail/lmcilwain and my ~/mail/Trash mailboxes but all of my other mailboxes it doesn't recognize.

Since it does recognize my Trash mailbox it kinda throws my whole theory of my mailboxes being in the wrong format.

Can anyone tell me what options I have?

Is there a place in /etc/dovecot.conf where I can try and specify something to make these recognizable? Is it possibly a permissions problem where dovecot won't serve them for some reason?

Thanks for any help...

What does your directory structure look like?

Have a look at

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=493355

Honestly, I don't know how to generate the directory structure. Is there a specific comment?

So I decided since I didn't get to many suggestions with what other things I could try, I decided to recreate my mailboxes using a mail client logged into the FC4 machine that is running dovecot. I think scp'd the files from my mac to my FC4 machine and cat'd each file into the newly created mailboxes. For a few of them it worked with no problem. For the others I got the following error in the log file:

Nov 12 23:26:24 FC4FW imap(lmcilwain): open() failed with file /home/lmcilwain/mail//.imap/linuxusersgroup/.imap.index: Not a directory

Nov 12 23:26:24 FC4FW imap(lmcilwain): open() failed with file /home/lmcilwain/mail//.imap/linuxusersgroup/.customflags: Not a directory

So I don't know how to get rid of the extra // that is in the path. I am assuming that is what the problem is.

Actually, I'd guess that the problem may be that linuxusersgroup isn't .linuxusersgroup

All my "folders" are .folder, and there is a file .imap.index and another .customflags in it.

See if the only errors occur if you are missing the period before folder names below mail