On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 14:33 -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
I am using Freebsd 4.10stable, postfix 2.1.5 with SASL and TLS,
procmail version 3.22 and binc IMAP 1.2.8 binc uses IMAPdir style mail boxes, Spam assassin, and ClamAV. Wish to convert to dovecot but your program does not support IMAPdir does it??? also i have many user accounts that i wish to use untouched if possible. I guess this is a migration question for the most part i am switching to dovecot because of its ability to use postgre database files and real log file. Is there a simple way to achieve this without losing any of my users mail?
IMAPdir is almost fully compatible with Maildir++ layout which Dovecot uses. I think the only somewhat problematic part is if users had used dots in mailbox names, but even then they're not lost.
Another difference which clients would see after switching to Dovecot is that hierarchy separator changes into '.' instead of '/'. Some clients may get confused because of that. With Dovecot 1.0-tests you could configure it to use '/' as well.
There are some generic documents about migrating to Dovecot in Wiki:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes