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.