On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:28 +0100, Gerhard Hofmann wrote:
DiskMan wrote:
To: Gerhard Hofmann Funny you should ask... I just swung my box over from MBOX to MAILDIR and to be honest it works like a top.
I suppose you have used this script http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ as described in the Dovecot WIKI for the conversion?
BTW. Nowadays Dovecot includes its own conversion tool also, which might work better than mb2md. Usage is something like:
src/plugin/convert-tool user /home/user mbox:/home/user/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u maildir:/home/user/Maildir
It converts all mailboxes and you can convert between any two formats. Everything is read and written through Dovecot's normal functions, so it can use existing indexes to speed things up, and it also writes the indexes to destination mailboxes while converting.
convert plugin can also be run as imap/pop3/lda plugin where it converts the mailboxes the first time user logs in or new mail is delivered to user.
After conversion the old mail directory is renamed to mail-converted directory (eg. /home/user/mail -> /home/user/mail-converted).