Sorry to answer my own question.
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:36:05 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote:
[ ... ]
> plugin:
> convert_mail: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> convert_skip_broken_mailboxes: no
After changing this to
convert_mail = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
^^^^^^^^
Because currently UW-IMAP is in use
convert_skip_broken_mailboxes = yes
...
> > service dovecot start
> Starting IMAP-Service (dovecot
> 1.0.rc31)Eopen(/.temp.seymour.elsner.lan.5894.59e
> ab08fc33e142b) failed: Permission denied
> Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89
> [FAILED]#
The above error disappeared and now the log shows:
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: imap-login: Login: USER=migrant,
[192.168.28.53]
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Loading modules from directory:
/usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Module loaded:
/usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_convert_plugin.so
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Effective uid=1988, gid=100,
home=/home/migrant
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox:
data=/home/migrant:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: root=/home/migrant,
index=/home/migrant, inbox=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox:
data=/home/migrant:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): mbox: root=/home/migrant,
index=/home/migrant, inbox=/var/spool/mail/migrant
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): maildir:
data=/home/migrant/MailDir
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): maildir:
root=/home/migrant/MailDir, index=/home/migrant/MailDir, control=, inbox=
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: IMAP(migrant): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't
create mailbox directory .gnome2_private
Apr 8 23:13:36 seymour dovecot: child 9905 (imap) returned error 89
--Frank Elsner