Thank you Steffen, for addressing my problem of migrating old mails into new mail server. I went through the article you pointed to but could not succueed. I will appreciate if you could guide me to step by step process to migrate the mails. My old mail server used 2.x dovecot version.
K. C. Mohan
-----Original Message----- From: Steffen Kaiser Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 6:14 AM To: K. C. Mohan - Personal s Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] integration of old mails into new dovecot Maildir
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, K. C. Mohan - Personal wrote:
I just installed dovecot 2.2.9 on to a new server and want to transfer all the old mails into the email accounts I imported from the previous server into MySQL database. I am not able to view the subfolders and or old mails that I copied into their respective maildir folders. I was very much appreciate if anyone could let me know how to import old mails into the new server. All I see, is the new mails that have come into the account since I started dovecot service in the new server.
Check out http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration . Read esp. about "preserving messages' UIDs".
If the old server uses Maildir, too, and you don't care about the UIDs, copy the files over and you are done.
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