on 2-10-2009 9:18 AM Harry Lachanas spake the following:
Luciano Mannucci wrote:
Hi all,
I have a postfix+procmail+dovecot installation, now running basicaly on pop3 hence mailbox format, with few thousand users and less than twenty gigabytes mail. I need to move all of them to maildir, to take advantage of IMAP subfolders that do not work with mbox format (so I'm told :). Of course I cannot safely stop the service for more than a bunch of seconds...
What I'm about to do:
I warn you that I am very new to this ...
But have a look at the Convert plugin ....
I Think it can answer some of your questions .
If your users are now on pop3, this should work well, but the convert plugin doesn't preserve message uid's so all clients will re-download all the mail that is on the server. IMAP will just re-index, but pop3 will actually re-download all the messages again.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!