On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 16:24, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)? >
Yes, it was pretty much empty..actually, I just configured the Dovecot instance yesterday evening and only tested for "correct operation" by sending a test mail to myself and login to POP3/IMAP. Pretty much pristine. And yes, if is FreeBSD ufs. [wash@jaribu ~]$ mount /dev/label/rootfs0 on / (ufs, local, noatime, journaled soft-updates) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) linprocfs on /compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local) /dev/ada1s1a on /disk2 (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) > What happens if you now run: > > doveadm force-resync -u [email protected] INBOX > [root@jaribu] /usr/home/wash# /opt/dovecot2.1/bin/doveadm force-resync -u [email protected] INBOX doveadm([email protected]): Warning: mdbox /var/spool/virtual/ kictanet.or.ke/wash/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes > > Does it show any errors? If not, and if you try to copy the mails again, > does it still fail? > Unfortunately, the user has taken the MacBook now so I am unable to test copying again. > > 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. > I should be able to test this again at some point next week, but just to add, I changed the storage to Maildir and I was able to copy all the mails to the IMAP folder without any issue so I think it's something with SIS. PS: I wish I could test this with Outlook running on Windows, but I guess that introduces a completely different environment than what I had on the MacBook, right? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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