[Dovecot] Smooth mailbox to maildir migration

[Scott Silva]

on 2-10-2009 9:21 AM Harry Lachanas spake the following:
> Luciano Mannucci wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a postfix+procmail+dovecot installation, now running basicaly
>> on pop3 hence mailbox format, with few thousand users and less than
>> twenty gigabytes mail.
>> I need to move all of them to maildir, to take advantage of IMAP
>> subfolders that do not work with mbox format (so I'm told :).
>>   
> Also take into consideration that you will need much more disk space for
> this ....
> 
You will need 2 times the mailstore during the conversion, but after you can
remove the mbox files to recover some of the space if you need to.


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