I’ve got a Symbiosis server which I’m looking to move to Sympl at some point, but I need to fix a couple of issues first. One is that some emails on disk don’t show in IMAP clients, for example: 1575648716.M193166P1443.mail.example.org,S=10113,W=10398:2,Sa: Does show. 0000652880-Subject of email…

One of the things Sympl does is reset permissions and ownership on the public, config, and mailboxes directories, so you shouldn’t see the permissions thing again once you migrate. :slight_smile:

I’ve never had a problem copying IMAP file directories from one server to another (some have survived at least two moves) but they were always from other Dovecot-administered Maildir stores. In the examples above I’d be suspicious about the spaces, if “Subject of email” is literal. As an experiment…

I can’t see anything immediately in the Sympl configs, but looking at a normal Sympl mailbox, I can see files with the first longer filenames which seem to be fine, but I wouldn’t be that surprised if the Dovecot configuration doesn’t like the naming of the second example, as it looks like it’s expe…

Thanks for the pointers, they give me a couple of things to try. The spaces in the email are literal so I might rename those first, and on close examination it looks like the imported files have slightly different permissions too.

Spaces in file names don’t seem to be a problem, Dovecot shows up *.eml files regardless. However, permissions and ownership do seem to be an issue. Are the correct permissions for email: Owner: admin Group: admin Permissions: 0500 (aka owner rw, no other permissions) Some of the files seem to be…

Mine have owner sympl:sympl permissions -rw------- (isn’t the ‘admin’ user a symbiosis thing?)

Yes, this is a Symbiosis server that I’m trying to get into shape so it can be moved to Sympl.

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