Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:27 -0700, Andrew Z wrote:
I can't find much documentation on the convert_mail plugin. For example, on the wiki plugins page, clicking on convert goes to http://wiki.dovecot.org/InterWiki which is not relevant.
Can I use convert_mail to migrate from UW IMAP 2002 mbox format where some mail is in ~/ and the inboxes are in /var/spool/mail? Will it know which files are mbox folders, so it doesn't try to convert other files in the home directories?
Looks like it gives an error and stops the conversion completely. But I added convert_skip_broken_mailboxes setting now to convert plugin on CVS. Latest nightly snapshot also has it.
I wrote the wiki page with answers to your questions: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert
Is this configuration snippet valid?
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir convert_mail = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Yep.
Thank you very much. After the conversion, are the files in /~ renamed or moved? Is the CVS stable, or should I wait for 1.0 RC 16?
Andrew