[Dovecot] Re-downloading mails after migrate server

Francisco Wagner C. Freire wgrcunha at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 16:33:28 EEST 2011


I think a good try is update the new server to latest dovecot version.
I migrate about 1.5M mailboxes from dovecot 1.0.X to Dovecot 2.0.X and no
problems (and we have a lot of users with the "leave copy on server" option
checked).

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Pete Conkin <pete at reach.net> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther Yébenes --Conzentra--" <
> esther.yebenes at conzentra.com>
>
>
>> I know that lots of servers are migrated every day, and never heard
>> about those problems, so I suppose it must be a solution for this, or
>> maybe a better way to configure the servers.
>>
>>   Happen to us as well.  Seemed to be specific to certain email clients
> though.  Thunderbird and Eudora did not download all the emails, Outlook
> did.
>
>  It appeared to also occur with users that POP3 using multiple clients
> (Outlook and smart phone for instance) as well as those that had Outlook set
> to "Leave a copy on server for x days".
>
>  Pete
>


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