[Dovecot] UW-IMAP to Dovecot conversion - How to migrate the folders?

[Patrick - South Valley Internet]

I have, but it didn't do anything that I could tell.

I tried resyncing my IMAP but I didn't see the new folder.

Does it matter that the UW-IMAP folders are in mbox-like format?  It 
appears each "folder" is a single file, similar to mbox format.

Thanks again.

Patrick



Scott Silva wrote:
> Patrick - South Valley Internet spake the following on 8/20/2007 3:21 PM:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've read so much information on this that I'm a little confused as to
>> what to follow.  Here's what's going on:
>>
>> We just migrated away from our AIX machines which were running Postfix
>> and UW-IMAP.  We're now running Postfix with Dovecot.  I already
>> converted everyone's mbox file to maildir, but now I'm having a little
>> troubles with how to exactly populate their IMAP folders.  People are
>> saying they cannot see their folders.  These 'folders' they are talking
>> about can be found in their /home directory.
>>
>> I have the following URLs I've been looking at:
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
>> http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/maildir-migration.txt
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert
>> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-June/023757.html
>>
>> What would be the suggested method to convert them?  So far I understand
>> that I need to somehow populate the /home/USERNAME/Maildir/subscriptions
>> file with the items located in /home/USERNAME/.mailboxlist and then I
>> don't know what to do from there.  I don't know if I need to incorporate
>> a Dovecot plugin, or if there is a script I can run to do this for me.
>>
>> Since this is a live server, I would prefer to test on a single account
>> before I run a plugin that would effect all users globally.
>>
>> Any help would be very appreciated - thanks in advance!
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>>     
> Have you tried to edit their subscriptions file?
> Or log in with a client to one of the accounts and use its subscribe feature?
> With the second method, you could get an idea of what the subscriptions layout
> is and use a copy / sed script to fix each one.
>
>