- Charles Marcus CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com [2008-09-24 12:12]:
On 9/24/2008 11:47 AM, Steinar Bang wrote:
The wiki page says "cyrus2dovecot doesn't preserve timestamps or flags" http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Cyrus
However, the cyrus2dovecot home page says: "Virtually all available metadata is preserved during the conversion. This includes the UID and INTERNALDATE of each message, the IMAP folder subscriptions, the UIDVALIDITY and UIDNEXT values for each folder, as well as all IMAP flags (i.e., \Recent, \Seen, \Answered, \Flagged, \Draft, \Deleted) and the first 26 user-defined keywords."
Which to me sounds like the opposite of what the dovecot wiki says.
Perhaps the wiki should be updated?
Looks like there are 2 different scripts.
Yes, indeed. We (Freie Universität Berlin) published our Cyrus2Dovecot just a few days ago. Unlike the older script, ours _does_ try hard to preserve all available metadata, and this should actually work with all Cyrus versions (tested with both the oldest and the newest available Cyrus release, that is, 1.4 and 2.3.12p2, and with various database formats). Apart from that, ours provides a few additional features we needed for our conversion which might also be useful to others, such as renaming (or moving) folders using s/regex/replacement/ substitutions.
But yeah, if the one you referenced above works well, the wiki should be changed to reflect use of this new one (with the permission of the author of course)...
We now added our Cyrus2Dovecot to the wiki page.
Holger