[Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

[Donny Brooks]

This actually looks like the way I will look into doing it. That way I can migrate the ones that have close to 8GB of mail on a weekend and the rest that are "typical" with a few hundred MB any old time.

Now just to figure out the proper syntax for ldap. ;) 
 
 
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Donny B. 
 
On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:02 AM CDT, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote: 
 
> On 2010-09-14 11:51 AM, Donny Brooks <dbrooks at mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
> > So once I setup postfix to deliver the mail properly and the dovecot
> > convert plugin is setup, is there a way to gradually migrate the
> > users so I don't kill the server? We have about 220GB or so of mail
> > between about 160+/- users. What would be the best way to migrate it
> > all to maildir?
> 
> I can't give you precise instructions, but from the bottom of the
> Plugins wiki page:
> 
> "To enable / disable plugins per user you can make your userdb return
> mail_plugins extra field. See UserDatabase/ExtraFields for examples."
> 
> http://wiki1.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields
> 
> So you could enable the convert plugin on a per user basis and do them
> one at a time or in small groups...
> 
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> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Charles