[courier-users] -ERR Maildir: No such file or directory (migration woes)

Hi

Ok, it's been a wild adventure trying to convert my old courier setup
to the new server, but i think i'm almost there now. Basically i'm
using MySQL for the backend users, but decided to keep the old userdb
for the existing users. I copied over the userdb file, and changed
out some of home=3D value. I tried logging in as one of the old users
w/ no luck (permission errors). Than i remembered the uid/gid section
there in the userdb file. I swapped that out to the new value (5000)
and re-ran makeuserdb. Authorization works now (hallelujah). Alas,
the mail is still unretrievable... when i try to log in as one of the
older users from telnet i get this error:

pass x
-ERR Maildir: No such file or directory
Connection closed by foreign host.

and the relevant output from the logs:

Aug 2 10:22:32 zena courierpop3login: Connection, ip=3D[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug 2 10:22:35 zena courierpop3login: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=3D[::ffff:127.0.0.1=
], comm
and=3DUSER
Aug 2 10:22:36 zena courierpop3login: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=3D[::ffff:127.0.0.1=
], comm
and=3DPASS
Aug 2 10:22:36 zena courierpop3login: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=3D[::ffff:127.0.0.1=
], user
name=3Dsam@foobar.com
Aug 2 10:22:36 zena courierpop3login: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=3D[::ffff:127.0.0.1=
], pass
word=3Dx
Aug 2 10:22:36 zena courierpop3login: authdaemon: starting client module
Aug 2 10:22:36 zena courierpop3login: authdaemon: ACCEPT, username
sam@foobar.com

Ok, so it is evident that it's just an issue w/ the migration... i
copied all the old maildirs off the old server to the new one. they
used to be in /home/virtual, but now they are in /home/vmail (i did
change that parameter in the userdb file). Anyway... i've been trying
to find out where it's looking for the Maildir in the docs/config
files, but not w/ much luck. I did see the MAILDIRPATH there in
/etc/courier/pop3d (it's default value was Maildir), so i tried
changing that to '.' (because i don't having any folders that are
actually named Maildir), but that didn't work either. Maybe a sample
of how my maildirs are layed out would help?

/home/vmail/foobar.com/i/sam // this is the maildir

is it the MAILDIRPATH that is causing me such woes? otherwise where
else can i look?

Thanks a lot!

Cameron Matheson


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