[Dovecot] More Migration Questions

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Richard Hobbs wrote:

> Where should i convert my mbox mailboxes into? "/home/username/ 
> Maildir/"
> or "/somewhere/maildirs/"?
>
> Does it actually matter? Is there a standard location that they  
> *should* go?

It doesn't matter. Maildir/ is a bit more standard, but Dovecot  
doesn't care.

> Also, having converted the mbox files into maildir files, i do seem to
> have one email per file, as intended, but the files have names like
> "1250253965.000586.mbox,S=8167,W=8427:2,S". Should they have the word
> "mbox" in their filename if they are maildir files?

The file names don't matter, as long as they're unique. The S= and W=  
parts are about optimizing looking up file sizes.

> Finally, it appears that our existing IMAP users (all mbox) have
> mailboxes stored simply in their home directory, not necessarily  
> inside
> the "~/mail/" directory - is this going to be a problem?

That's better actually, you don't then have to add those ~/mail/  
compabilitity namespaces.

> The command i'm using to convert is this one:
>
> ./migrateuser.sh username /home/username /vol2/maildirs/username

I'd have separate "home" and maildir directories. For example:

home = /vol2/maildirs/username
mail_location = maildir: ~/Maildir

http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#Home_directories