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

Patrick - South Valley Internet patrickm at garlic.com
Wed Aug 22 00:06:29 EEST 2007


Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday, August 20 at 04:07 PM, quoth 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.
>
> Yeah, it does matter. Dovecot doesn't allow you to mix-and-match 
> different mail storage formats very easily. You may be able to set 
> something like that up with the Namespaces support in Dovecot, but the 
> easiest thing to do is to convert your mbox files into Maildir.
>
> ~Kyle


Thanks Kyle, but how do I convert the mbox-like IMAP folders into 
something Dovecot can read with the new config?

Patrick


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