At a customer we run dovecot-2.3.10 along with postfix and mariadb, using postfixadmin as GUI.
Now I plan to migrate to a new hardware (bigger machine) and in the same step to migrate from Gentoo Linux to Debian Linux.
So I think about how to get the mailboxes from A to B.
We use one UID afaik:
mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%u mail_location = maildir:~
I read about dsync and wonder:
does it make sense in this case to set up replication and let the servers replicate at first while still running on the old server?
do I have advantages over doing some rsync-jobs?
I somewhere read about not being able to sync sieve-scripts below the maildirs?
We have:
plugin { sieve = /home/vmail/%d/%u/sieve/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/default.sieve sieve_dir = /home/vmail/%d/%u/sieve/scripts/ sieve_extensions = +imapflags }
- would the replication sync over all the existing mails/mailboxes or only the ones created *after* starting the replication? Stupid question maybe, but I just want to be sure before I screw up the installation.
- sure, backups backups all the way
;-)
thanks for any feedback on this!
Stefan