Quoting Wilko Bulte, who wrote on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 08:36:33PM +0100 .. > hi > > Today I have been in a puzzling fight with 2 dovecot versions that I would > like to ask some comments on. > > The situation is this: > > - I have a considerable mail archive in mbox format (yes, I know, but that > is what I have..). > - My mail reader is mutt 1.5.20 by the way. > - Some of these mbox files have names like firstname.initial.lastname > Note the . seperating the parts of the email-ers name. > - On my old system I have dovecot v 1.1.7 which has always worked flawless > - On my new system I have dovecot v 1.2.8 which refuses to handle these > dot-seperated files. I get the somewhat familiar > "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes". > On a not-previously-existing mbox dovecot 1.2.8 produces the directory > hierarchy thing: firstname -> initial -> lastname > - I am using the same dovecot.conf on v.1.1.7 and v.1.2.8 > > Can anyone tell me if v1.2.8 no longer is able to do what v1.1.7 did? And > what I dearly would like to get working :-( And if it can, what should I > put in dovecot.conf to make that happen?
Really nobody who has any idea? I admit, my Googling did not help either but still :-) I would have imagined someone else on this list might have encountered the issue? Wilko
