[Dovecot] Dovecot for production environment

[James Moser]

I didn't convert any mail files... I did copy the .mailboxlist to 
.subscriptions since dovecot uses a different filename than uw-imap, and 
I edited the C code so that the pop server wouldn't adervtise it 
supported SASL PLAIN to make Eudora users happy.  For some users, 
deleting their account settings and resetting them up took care of the 
Invalid mask problem.  I had that problem with Mozilla mail, and two 
other people had the problem with Mozilla Thunderbird.  If it becomes a 
big enough problem its easy enough to comment out one line of code in 
dovecot so it won't reply with this error message.

Thats it... overall the migration was pretty easy..
 

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

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> seth vidal wrote:
> | On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:26, James Moser wrote:
> |
> |>We just started using it on a system with more than 50,000 users and it
> |>works quite nicely.   Migrating from uw-imap to dovecot caused a few
> |>problems with some user's mail clients, like Mozilla mail based clients
> |>issued command that cuased the server to respond with "Invalid mask",
> |>and Eudora's SASL AUTH doesn't seem to work with the pop server, but
> |>other than that it seems to work great.
> |>
> |
> |
> | Just b/c I'm curious (and if you want take this offlist is fine) what's
> | your setup look like for this system? Do you have a whitepaper or a
> | layout for it?
>
> Please use the list.
>
> Also, I am interested in the migration process. If you used scripts
> (like switch from mbox to Maildir) then  which one(s), and did you do
> some finetuning to them? Did you use the "move to mbox" feature of
> uw-imap, and if you did how did you handle that when you switched?
>
> Any tricks and experiences are much appreciated.
>
> ~ - Jonas
>
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