Hi,
Curious if anyone has any good suggestions to handle this.
I try to get my hosting users to use IMAP but most use Outhouse and the IMAP support is somewhat annoying for many so I typically have them change their settings when using POP to leave copies on the server. That way when they get the inevitable virus or wanna use webmail they have a backup copy and webmail sees their saved mail.
So now I have to move my sites to a new server and I'm trying to avoid having all these messages re-downloaded by POP clients. Some of the sites I've moved with low email usage have just dealt with the re-download and cleaned up afterwards. I have a few other accounts though that I'm more concerned about that have massive amounts of stored email.
The mail is stored in Maildirs - a sample file: 1280409166.23580.foo:2,S
If I move this to server "bar" would renaming the file to 1280409166.23580.bar:2,S prevent this somehow?
Old server uses qmail-pop, new server uses dovecot 2.0.
Thanks for any tips,
Josh