[Dovecot] Maildir format migration

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:47 +0800, Tony Tsang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am planning to use dovecot IMAP on my server. Currently it is
> running UW-IMAP server with Maildir format storing users' mail. I've
> found that dovecot uses different Maildir format from UW-IMAP. Is
> there any configuration option for adapting dovecot to use format used
> by UW-IMAP?

A standard UW-IMAP distribution doesn't include support for maildir. Do
you mean you're using that unofficial patch which used UID=xyz in the
maildir filenames? If so, you'll have to change the directory layout to
Maildir++, but otherwise those filenames would work, even though new
UIDs will be given to them unless you write a script that writes them to
dovecot-uidlist file.

Alternatively you could try CVS HEAD version of Dovecot which supports
filesystem layout for Maildirs (mail_location =
maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=FS), but then again CVS HEAD is an actual
stable release.
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