Problems Converting from Cyrus to Dovecot (cyrus2dovecot)

[Forrest]

Thank you for the reply.  I did find imapsync whilst perusing Google.  I 
will give it a shot, it sounds more realistic/reliable. I have a hoard 
of emails going back to 1999, so I want as few errors as possible :)



On 11/7/15 3:31 PM, Philon wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I was in the same position, but for mutliple accounts. Still you might want to look at imapsync (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync), isync and offlineimap. There are more alternatives listed at the imapsync homepage.
>
>
> Philon
>
>
>> Am 04.11.2015 um 20:47 schrieb Forrest <those.lists at gmail.com>:
>>
>> I have been attempting to use the cyrus2dovecot script, to no avail.
>>
>> I have many years of content that I want to convert from Cyrus to Dovecot; with the above not working, what are other options out there?  Another idea I had is simply set up another IMAP server (using Dovecot) and drag-and-drop and just wait, which I may end up doing.
>>
>> In the above, I copied over my entire /var/imap and /var/spool/imap to another system; there is only one account (mine), so calling the script was fairly easy; it just doesn't work.
>>
>>
>> inboxes=the "myaccount" that was copied over
>>
>> /home/myaccount/cyrus2dovecot --cyrus-inbox /home/myaccount/inboxes/%u     \
>>                   --cyrus-seen /home/myaccount/varimap/user/%h/%u.seen    \
>>                   --cyrus-sub /home/varimap/user/%h/%u.sub      \
>>                   --dovecot-inbox /home/myaccount/dovecot/Maildir \
>>                   myaccount
>>
>>
>>
>> the log output complains of:
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>>     cyrus2dovecot [myaccount]: (warning) Index record missing for: INBOX/62020.
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>> and correctly complains about squat indices, as that's not a file it would handle.  There is no output into the Maildir, however.
>>
>> All directory paths are correct.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.