On Friday, April 20, 2012 02:27:59 pm Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 20.4.2012, at 22.26, Jeff Simmons wrote:
I'm migrating an old UW pop server to a new Dovecot server. The old server did not allow mail to be stored on the server, so only mbox files exist in /var/mail, with nothing in /home/$user. I'd like to copy the /var/mail directory over to the new server and then use dsync to convert the mbox files and put them in /home/$user/Maildir, but every permutation of the command line I've tried dies with a variation on can't find/write either /var/mail/mail or /home/$user/mail, seems it won't deal with mbox files without an associated mail directory. Can dsync be used for this kind of conversion, or should I look elsewhere for conversion utilities?
Assuming in destination server the mbox is in /var/mail/$user and you want the destination to ~/Maildir:
in dovecot.conf set: mail_location = maildir.~/Maildir
rm -rf /tmp/emptydir dsync mirror mbox:/tmp/emptydir:/var/mail/$user
Actually:
dsync mirror mbox:/tmp/emptydir:INBOX=/var/mail/$user :)
And be sure that /var/mail/$user has the same ownership:group as the user (i.e. $user:$user NOT $user:mail).
be sure to delete the emptydir between users.
-- Jeff Simmons jeff@j-simmons.net Simmons Consulting - Network Engineering, Administration, Security