Moving from one Dovecot server to another Dovecot server

[Michael]

Quoting Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Michael wrote:
>> Quoting Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:
>>> 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
>
> I would not use dsync here:
> use rsync, one mail location after another with the paritcular source and
> target location.
>
> Maildir is relative to the mail location, so no problem. You copy all mail
> related data, too; e.g. ACLs, keywords, subscription. You might run into
> problems with the cache and index files, because you downgrade. But I do
> not think, the format changed between 2.2.10 & 2.2.9.

Yeah, but cache and index should get just rebuilt by Dovecot in case  
of problems, right?
>
>> 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
>
> Here, too. Do it via filesystem level commands.

Ok, I'll use rsync for the job. Thanks for your help.

regards,
Michael