On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT), Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, list@airstreamcomm.net wrote:
We have an older mail server using qpopper and the mbox format which we need to update to dovecot and maildir format. I have read through the docs on migrating from mbox to maildir, as well as a few nuggets on how to migrate from qpopper to dovecot, and I was wondering if I could get some suggestions on best practices for this specific migration. Would the built in dovecot conversion plugin be a viable method to migrate users? We will be migrating to dovecot 2.0.12 from qpopper 4.0.5.
I didn't do anything special other than to use
pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes
so that clients don't re-download all their messages.
Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>
Joseph,
Did you convert the mbox emails to maildir format as well, or just put dovecot in front of the mbox files and run with the config setting you described above? I am attempting to convert all the mbox files to maildir format for use on a new system, and have found the mb2md.pl script on this page:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
I am going to test the script against a test user and see if it functions as expected.