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Well, the short (and incomplete) answer is that:
1. A default Virtualmin system uses maildir.
2. Email is stored in the users home directory in /home/$VIRTUAL_SERVER_OWNER/Maildir and /home/$VIRTUAL_SERVER_OWNER/homes/EMAIL_USERNAME/Maildir
3. Your current system is likely mbox, as you suspected (mbox uses a large file for all emails, maildir uses one file per email)
I could have sworn that I've seen some info in the forums or bug tracker on converting from one to the other, but I'm not seeing it ATM.
But hopefully the above helps you get started :-)
-Eric
Jamie added a command for this a while back, so you can use something like:
virtualmin copy-mailbox --source /var/spool/mail/USER --dest ~USER/Maildir/
Where USER is the username. You can explicitly give the full path, instead, if you prefer.
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Awesome, looking forward to trying this out. Forgive the newbie question, but do I need to run this command from anywhere specific? In what context? root?
root is the only user that has access to the virtualmin command (for now, though there are plans for future integration of full Webmin ACL support into the command line tools).
It can be run from anywhere, as you're passing in the only two paths that matter (the location of the mbox and the destination Maildir).
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The script works great when run from the command line. It will even create a Maildir directory if one does not exist. However, I'm running into problems running it from a bash script as root. Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash# take input from script execution
CLIENT=$1
# convert avenue spoolfile to dovecot format
virtualmin copy-mailbox --source /home/$CLIENT/tmp/$CLIENT-spool --dest ~$CLIENT/Maildir/
chown -R $CLIENT:$CLIENT /home/$CLIENT/Maildir
If I run ./script.sh aagg &> stderr_and_stdout.txt
I get the following in stderr_and_stdout.txt:
Error: Write failed : No such file or directoryError
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Write failed : No such file or directory
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Copying 82 messages totalling 3.55 MB ...
chown: cannot access `/home/aagg/Maildir': No such file or directory
done
It appears to be failing while trying to create a Maildir directory, and putting the converted files into it.
What am I doing wrong here? Is this me, or the virtualmin copy-mailbox command?