[Dovecot] Converting from qpopper mbox to dovecot maildir
Joseph Tam
jtam.home at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 23:41:02 EEST 2011
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, list at airstreamcomm.net wrote:
> We have an older mail server using qpopper and the mbox format which we
> need to update to dovecot and maildir format. I have read through the docs
> on migrating from mbox to maildir, as well as a few nuggets on how to
> migrate from qpopper to dovecot, and I was wondering if I could get some
> suggestions on best practices for this specific migration. Would the built
> in dovecot conversion plugin be a viable method to migrate users? We will
> be migrating to dovecot 2.0.12 from qpopper 4.0.5.
I didn't do anything special other than to use
pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes
so that clients don't re-download all their messages.
Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
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