Re: [Dovecot] sdbox to mdbox

Joan Moreau wrote on 12/24/2010:

Thanks for the link, but the page is not really speaking about the matter.

I clarify my question:

How to convert a "sdbox" system (in production) to "mdbox" without loosing any email ?

you can use this command for example (without loosing emails):

dsync -o mail_location=sdbox:/path_to_old_mailbox/sdbox mirror mdbox:/path_to_new_mailbox/mdbox

You can stop Dovecot, convert your emails, change the Dovecot configuration to mdbox (instead of sdbox) and restart Dovecot.

Maybe you could also use a script which runs after the user login. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting

-- Daniel