[Dovecot] More Migration Questions

[Richard Hobbs]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply... everything seem to be working with regard to my
previous questions now, which is great.

Regarding the ~/mail/ issues though, you said:

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

Well, i haven't added any ~/mail/ compatibility namespaces knowingly...
i guess they might be in the default config (my version has been built
for debian), but how would i check?

Basically, the problem is that some users have their folders in
"~/mail/" and others have their folders in "~/".

I want to convert both, and also and up with a standard location in the
maildir setup. I guess the best way to do this is to just copy
everyone's mailboxes from "~/" into "~/mail/" before i run the
conversion, right? As long as people don't object to their folders
potentially changing places within their IMAP client, everything will be
OK, right?

Thanks again!

Richard.


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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
> 
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