[Dovecot] Smooth mailbox to maildir migration

[Scott Silva]

on 2-10-2009 9:18 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 :).
>> Of course I cannot safely stop the service for more than a bunch of
>> seconds...
>>
>> What I'm about to do:
>>   
> I warn you that I am very new to this ...
> 
> But have a look at the Convert plugin ....
> 
> I Think it can answer some of your questions .
> 
If your users are now on pop3, this should work well, but the convert plugin
doesn't preserve message uid's so all clients will re-download all the mail
that is on the server. IMAP will just re-index, but pop3 will actually
re-download all the messages again.


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