I have read the migration docs.  They seem to relate to migrating
from one imap product to dovecot on the same server.  I'm
interested in migrating my Maildir-formatted email from one server to
another. <br>
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1.&nbsp; Can I tar my ~/mail directory on serverX.com, untar it on a
different physical serverY.com (initially with a different domain
name), and still see my mail when I access <a href="http://imap.serverY.com">imap.serverY.com</a> (dovecot's
running on serverY.com .. but let me know if there are any tricks that
I need to make this work).<br>
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2.&nbsp; If I maintain large mailboxes and check my mail frequently,
how does the dovecot server load compare to something like apache or
Samba?<br>
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I ask because I have a vanity domain that I mostly use for email and I
want to ensure that I can migrate my precious emails to a new service
provider.&nbsp; And the provider that I'm considering offers low-cost
virtual dedicated servers but meters usage (including RAM and CPU).<br>
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One of the reasons I have question #1 is that the server name seems to be part of the email file names...<br>
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amead:/home/amead&gt; ls mail/cur | head -2<br>
2022292282.22297_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S<br>
2022312282.3225_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S<br>
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(<a href="http://rootr.net">rootr.net</a> is my current provider, not my vanity domain; vulcan is the
name of their mailserver) I don't know what effect this will have, if
any?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
<br>
-Alan<br>