On Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:28 AM CDT, Charles Marcus CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com wrote:
On 2010-09-11 3:14 AM, Donny Brooks dbrooks@mdah.state.ms.us wrote:
Currently our mail server is setup to use postfix and dovecot,
Version of DC?
On the old mail server it is: dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 On the new mail server we are migrating to it is: dovecot-1.2.14-1.fc13.x86_64 currently
Is there a repo out there that I can install 2.0 from? The only one I have found is atrpms and it is a pain to get conflict worked out with other packages.
I have searched until blue in the face and cannot find a 100% working solution that doesn't require alot of manual interaction to move the mail boxes from mbox to maildir.
Dovecot 2.0 would use dsync, and it should be really easy and avoids most problems the other methods can have (haven't used it yet myself, but will on a system I'll be upgrading soon)...
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
But either way, to avoid doing each one manually you'll need to use some scripting magic. If I were doing it, I'd probably write a script (or more likely hire someone to do it for me, since my scripting skills are rudimentary at best) that would run at the least busy time of day for your system, and iterate through the user:
disable login kill any existing processes for that user run dsync to convert everything re-enable login rinse, repeat.
I also tried the convert plugin located here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert but it kept erroring about not able to convert the box and exiting.
Did you ask here about the errors? Timo could probably address any problems your having very quickly.
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Best regards,
Charles
Most likely I will need to stick for now to the 1.x branch and just use the convert plugin. I will dig for the error again and see what it was. I will send a new message with the details on that. Thanks for the input.
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Donny B.