[BlueOnyx:00815] Re: Mail not importing with cmuImport

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 00:29 +0100, Michael Stauber wrote:
> > User user1 has no mail spool
> 
> There you got your problem!
> 
> So CMU tells us that the user in question didn't have a file called
> "mbox" in 
> his home directory when the export was made. It could possibly have
> been just 
> as I inidcated previously: That mbox instead was a symbolic link to 
> mail/saved-messages. Which is generally a bad idea as a mailbox should
> never 
> ever be anything but a file.
> 
> So the problem here is rather not CMU, but already started with the
> mailbox 
> layout on the source server prior to the CMU export being generated. 
> 
> To fix this (after the child has already fallen into the well) take a
> look at 
> this user's home directory and peek into mail/saved-messages. Check if
> that 
> looks like his mailbox and if so, copy it to ~username/mbox. Make sure
> the 
> mbox file afterwards has the UID of the user, the GID of his group
> (siteXX) 
> and also that the file has "600" permissions.

Unfortunately, this is not the case, the error about 'has no mail spool'
is correct for that user, there is no mail spool on the source server
because the user has always had forwarding on since creation. I also
check my user account that had mail at the source and it appears to be
OK according to your information...from the source server...

[root at tpa-hosting rfitzpatrick]# ls -lah mbox
-rw-------  1 rfitzpatrick site27 134M Mar 16 21:15 mbox

And the target BO server after cmuImport...

[admin at vnyxbo rfitzpatrick]$ ls -lah mbox
-rw------- 1 rfitzpatrick site1 0 Dec 24  2007 mbox

Thanks for the help, any other ideas?

-- 
Robert