[Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

[Regan Yelcich]

Thanks for the tips Noel I'll give that a go. I'm moving just a small number of mailboxes over from system users on one server to a new server using a virtual user setup = dovecot + postfix & postfix admin using MySQL. Thanks!



> On 4/11/2013, at 10:29 pm, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
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>> On 04/11/2013 14:33, Regan Yelcich wrote:
>>> On 2/11/2013, at 11:40 pm, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
>>>> On 02/11/2013 20:25, Regan Yelcich wrote:
>>>> Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to
>>>> Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on Ubuntu? Thanks.
>>> mb2md.pl
>>> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
>> I don't need to do anything specific for Dovecot? It'll see the new
>> Maildir account and automatically create the indexes etc?
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> IIRC it shows you how to use it, you need to indicate where the new maildir is, if you have only a few, do them all manually, if you have many, write a quick bash or perl script to do them, and dovecot will create the indexes when they login.
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> You will need to tell dovecot to look for the new location though, if your using system users as I suspect you are, then maildir:~/Maildir should do it *but* dont forget to make sure your MTA knows to use maildir as well, I've not worked with system users for a decade, but I think in postfix   home_mailbox = Maildir/ will do it, with sendmail its much more tricky and your best sticking with mbox, if exim, NFI - dont use it :)
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