Hello,
I was on here a month or two ago asking lots of questions about migrating from uw-imapd/qpopper/mbox to dovecot/maildir. I am now at the stage where i'm trying to convert all my emails, but i have a few questions...
Where should i convert my mbox mailboxes into? "/home/username/Maildir/" or "/somewhere/maildirs/"?
Does it actually matter? Is there a standard location that they *should* go?
I've tried converting them into "/somewhere/maildirs/username/", but then i found a dovecot page that says they are usually stored in "/home/username/Maildir" so now i don't know where to put them!
Also, having converted the mbox files into maildir files, i do seem to have one email per file, as intended, but the files have names like "1250253965.000586.mbox,S=8167,W=8427:2,S". Should they have the word "mbox" in their filename if they are maildir files?
Finally, it appears that our existing IMAP users (all mbox) have mailboxes stored simply in their home directory, not necessarily inside the "~/mail/" directory - is this going to be a problem?
The command i'm using to convert is this one:
./migrateuser.sh username /home/username /vol2/maildirs/username
This script (and the latest mb2md.py that goes with it, to preserve msg IDs) were obtained from here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
The stage i'm at with the server overall is that uw-imapd and qpopper have been completely removed, exim is currently setup to deliver via it's own method into the mbox files in /var/spool/mail but the exim service is stopped because i'm migrating, and dovecot 1.1 is installed but stopped, and has had no configuration done to it yet whatsoever.
So... any advice?
Thanks in advance!
Richard.
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