Greetings,

I would like to migrate mailboxes into a Dovecot system by using an IMAP transfer from the old system - and I'd like this to take place automatically at the time the user first logs into the new system.

I have a script which will perform an IMAP fetch and dump it into the local maildir.

In courier-imap I could create a '.loginexec' file which is executed when the user logs in, and gets deleted if it completes successfully. I'm trying to find something similar for Dovecot.

• fetchmail-wakeup is the right kind of idea, but I need it to stop running once mail has been transferred successfully once. It also needs different parameters for each user (e.g. user/pass used to login to the remote IMAP server)

• The convert_mail plugin only works with local mail spools, as far as I can tell. I'm not sure how it determines whether conversion has already taken place (whether the target maildir already exists?)

• autocreate only creates empty mailboxes

Any of these might be a starting point for developing my own plugin, but does anyone here know of an existing one which would do the job?

Thanks,

Brian.