On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:23:29 +0100, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
On 17.10.2010, at 17.52, Roland Stuehmer wrote:
How can I convert old mailboxes in "maildir-dbox hybrid" to a current dbox?
Does this help? http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-September/053012.html
If I understand it correctly, dbox/maildir hybrid is when there are some messages stored as maildir msgs and some messages in dbox format, isn't it?
The conversion, as described in the suggested post seems like a lot of trouble. So, I have some questions:
In the first scenario, if I redeliver maildir-format messages, does the users that use POP3 and store their mail on the server will re-download all redelivered messages? (if it does matter, my pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv).
The other option - convert the dbox-es back to maildir, move the old maildir messages in the new maildir, manually add them to the new uid-list and finally convert the new maildir to sdbox - seems quite fragile.
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