Moving from one Dovecot server to another Dovecot server

[Philipp Faeustlin]

Am 27.08.2014 um 13:23 schrieb Michael:
> Quoting Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Michael wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning to move all mailboxes from a Dovecot 2.2.10 server to a
>>> Dovecot 2.2.9 server. Dovecot is serving virtual users only.
>>
>> you downgrade?
>
> Yes, because I'm switching from CentOS 6.5 to Ubuntu 14.04. On the
> CentOS system I used the ATrpms repo. For Ubuntu I did not find any
> appropriate 3rd party repo. So I'm going to use the standard repo.

Perhaps the official Dovecot Repo would be a better solution:
http://shop.dovecot.fi/home/8-dovecot-ee-repository-access.html

>>
>>> I'm not sure if I can use dsync for that. According to the Wiki [1] the
>>> command to mirror my own mailbox should look like
>>
>> do you change the storage as well? Or: why not transfer the mailboxes,
>> ACLs, scripts etc.pp. on file system level, e.g. using rsync?
>
> On the new server I also changed some paths. For example the
> mail_location is not in the users home folder, but in an sub folder like
> it is suggested by the Dovecot wiki.
> I also changed the location for the sieve scripts. So I thought it might
> be easier to just let a tool like dsync transfer everything.
>
> What I changed between these two systems is:
>
> Old:
> mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
> New:
> mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/maildir
>
> Old:
> sieve = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve-scripts/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve
> sieve_before = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve-scripts/before
> sieve_dir = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve-scripts/%d/%n/sieve
> New:
> sieve = /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve-scripts/.dovecot.sieve
> sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve-scripts/before
> sieve_dir = /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve-scripts/sieve
>
>
> Michael

Philipp