On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 13:51 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I have a situation where I need to migrate e-mails from Outlook 2011 (Mac) > to Apple Mail. Having looked at all options, I have resorted to the, > perhaps, most difficult way: Create folders on the IMAP server, copy > e-mails into them from Outlook, connect Apple Mail and do the reverse. > However, I have hit a wall. > > I am running Dovecot 2.1.2 on FreeBSD, with mdbox storage. > > In my first attempt, I have 1792 messages in the "Sent Items" folder for > Outlook. I have tried (3 times) to copy the messages to the IMAP/Sent Items > folder, but the process dies at some point. When that happens, Outlook pops > a screen saying "IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin". .. > Mar 16 13:33:23 jaribu dovecot: imap([email protected]): Error: Corrupted > dbox file /var/spool/virtual/kictanet.or.ke/wash/mdbox/storage/m.4 (around > offset=894): msg header has bad magic value
Well, this isn't good. The mdbox was empty when you first started copying the mails? This is a normal local FreeBSD filesystem (not NFS or something else weird)? What happens if you now run: doveadm force-resync -u [email protected] INBOX Does it show any errors? If not, and if you try to copy the mails again, does it still fail? It's interesting if you can reproduce this. I wonder if it's because of FreeBSD or if it's related to single instance storage.
