[Dovecot] Probably a bad idea but.....

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:11, Mark Lidstone wrote:
> Mercury stores mail in a similar way to Maildirs, different folders with
> separate files for each mail, stored in plaintext RFC822 format.  How
> sensible would it be to copy the files over from the Mercury server to
> users maildirs on a Linux server?
> 
> The filenames are in a different format but I don't know if that would
> cause a problem?

You'll lose message flags, but as long as the filenames don't contain
':' characters you can just copy them.

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