[Dovecot] Dovecot for production environment

Avery Day schrock at dayzed.com
Fri Apr 9 02:53:17 EEST 2004


<quote who="Rick Johnson">
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Feel free to search the archives - I recently did a mbox to Maildir
> conversion, and posted the scripts I used to accomplish this. It worked
> well in my environment - and was able to traverse a few levels down for
> uses who had sub-folders.
>
> -Rick
> --
> Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson at medata.com
> Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc.
> PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc
>
>
I just migrated my email system at home from mbox to maildir using
mb2md.pl
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
it was as easy as
mb2md-3.20.pl -R -s ~/mail -d ~/Maildir
This is a really cool tool. It was also the best one around that I could
find.

-- 
Avery Day



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