[Dovecot] Email migration

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 28 May 2013, Romer Ventura wrote:

> So I am currently running dovecot 1.2.11 on Debian 5 for our production
> email systems. We just deployed some new Debian 7 servers and we will be
> upgrading to the latest dovecot version. I've been reading the docs, but I
> wanted to heard some feedback on the import of all my current email into the
> new installation. We have 320GB worth of email. Any gotchas I should be
> prepared for? Any complications I should be aware of when importing all
> these data?

Because you upgrade from Dovecot to Dovecot, there should be no trouble, 
if you keep any UID-related settings from the config. However, I would 
test it before with at least some users ;-)

But see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading esp. about doveconf at top of 
"Upgrading Dovecot v1.2 to v2.0"

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Steffen Kaiser
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