On Friday, October 08, 2010 02:33 PM CDT, Charles Marcus CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com wrote:
Please don't top-post...
I do apologize, I was using my webmail program and it was not setup properly
On 2010-10-08 3:15 PM, Donny Brooks wrote:
On Friday, October 08, 2010 02:01 PM CDT, Charles Marcus CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com wrote:
On 2010-10-08 2:53 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: I don't think the version matters much at this point though.
2.0 has been a bit buggy, so in this case, it does matter...
Gotcha, so should I stay with the 1.2.xx branch and just use the mail_convert plugin?
Or upgrade to 2.0.5 on the new server and still use doveadm - this is probably best if you can...
The newest I see for an rpm is 2.0.4 on the atrpms site. We try not to build from source due to the way a previous admin messed things up. Any pointers on a source for the 2.0.5 rpm?
Honestly though, I'm not really the best one to be advising you on this (I know enough to be dangerous, have played with the tools, but don't provide any warranties, etc)...
The only issue I have with that one is that I can't do it gradually and it pegs the server for all it has when a user is converted.
You can convert one or a few at a time, and I don't see any reason why you couldn't 'nice' the process somehow (not sure exactly how though)...
Is there a better way to migrate from mbox to Maildir and also from old machine to new? That is my end goal, migrate to new machine and to Maildir. Anything else is not really a huge deal.
I think the best thing would be to do what you need to do to get 2.0.5 installed on the new server, make sure it is working properly in your environment and for your use case, then migrate the users.
How many users do you have? I'm fairly certain there is a good way to do this mostly automated in batches...
We have about 160 users I believe at last count. Mail boxes range in size from a few MB to around 8GB. Being a state agency, they tell us we cannot delete any mail. This is why I am wanting to switch to Maildir so I can migrate "old" messages off to a different machine/disk for archival purposes but still remain accessible.
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Best regards,
Charles
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Donny B.