[Dovecot] Email client dowloads previously read messages as new during migration.
I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox. I have been able to find mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where I wish to keep mbox. ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the case I wish to take baby steps.)
I have setup dovecot pop3 communication and I go to my email client and everything works fine with the exception that all mail I have previously read (when using UW as my POP server) is downloaded again as NEW. Is there a way to prevent this from happening without setting my client to delete mail from server?
thank you!
Eric and Barbara Sammons spake the following on 5/9/2007 11:06 AM:
I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox. I have been able to find Did you look at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/UW ?
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Quoting Eric and Barbara Sammons sammon96@gmail.com:
I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox.
I did the same. I'm sure you'll be pleased by the results. I assume you are using 1.0 and not 0.99 versions?
I have been able to find mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where I wish to keep mbox. ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the case I wish to take baby steps.)
There is nothing wrong with staying with mbox. There may be reasons it is best or better to do so (then again, there could be reasons to go to maildir instead -- it all depends on your needs and setup).
There are few pages about the migration because there is so little to do for it.
I have setup dovecot pop3 communication and I go to my email client and everything works fine with the exception that all mail I have previously read (when using UW as my POP server) is downloaded again as NEW. Is there a way to prevent this from happening without setting my client to delete mail from server?
Did you set up your UID format properly in dovecot.conf? It should be:
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu
Other than that, it should pretty much work from my experience...
thank you!
Not sure I helped any, but you're welcome in any case.
-- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin
Go Longhorns!
Quoting Eric Rostetter rostetter@mail.utexas.edu:
Quoting Eric and Barbara Sammons sammon96@gmail.com:
I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox.
I did the same. I'm sure you'll be pleased by the results. I assume you are using 1.0 and not 0.99 versions?
I have been able to find mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where I wish to keep mbox. ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the case I wish to take baby steps.)
There is nothing wrong with staying with mbox. There may be reasons it is best or better to do so (then again, there could be reasons to go to maildir instead -- it all depends on your needs and setup).
There are few pages about the migration because there is so little to do for it.
I have setup dovecot pop3 communication and I go to my email client and everything works fine with the exception that all mail I have previously read (when using UW as my POP server) is downloaded again as NEW. Is there a way to prevent this from happening without setting my client to delete mail from server?
Did you set up your UID format properly in dovecot.conf? It should be:
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu
Other than that, it should pretty much work from my experience...
thank you!
Not sure I helped any, but you're welcome in any case.
-- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin
Go Longhorns!
I just did the exact same thing, with little problem for 750 user
accounts stored in an openldap database. I had to change from a
.mailboxlist to .subscriptions for their imap folders, but that wasnt
any big deal. So far (knock wood) is working very well, users have no
idea things have been switched. I did very little config for dovecot.
I have imap and pop clients.
-- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools
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