On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:17, Albert E. Whale wrote:
Neil wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 23:35, Albert E. Whale wrote:
I've been running a mbox solution using UW's IMAP server. I've
run it
for years.
Now do to heavy message volumes, I've decided to to take the
plunge to
convert to the Maildir format.
I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully
converted
the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am
setting up
the procmail tool to place the messages into the correct folder.
I have
been following the http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
formula,
but now have a question.
New Messages are now being placed into the ~user/Maildir/new folder.
However, when I attempt to retrieve those messages, Dovecot does not
find them. Why not?
How are you attempting to retrieve them?
I am trying to retrieve them using the POP3 section of Thunderbird.
Is Maildir an IMAP format?
No, the protocol (IMAP/POP3) is irrelevant. The important part to
note (and where I suspect your problem is) is that the folder, as far
as your client (Thunderbird) is concerned, is "Maildir/", the "Maildir/
new/" directory is part of Maildir's internal format.
That is to say, you should never be putting "Maildir/(new|cur|tmp)" as
a mailbox name into a client, just "Maildir/".
-N.
