Hi Timo,

I think I confused everyone by referring to them as shared folders (I was using the Courier phrasing).

I'm setting up Public Folders and then limiting access using ACLs. I can get that far as to creating them, I'm just wondering if there was a specific way to migrate from Courier's "public" folders to Dovecot's public folder system, or is it just a case of dropping the mail in?

Am I right in thinking Dovecot doesn't have the "cur" and "new" folders on Public folders? If so, we used qmail-deliver (with the -c flag) to deliver our mail into the public folders, how should I go about delivering the mail into those folders?

Thanks,

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 30 June 2011 6:41 AM To: Tom Clark Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Migrating shared folders from courier-imap to dovecot

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:45 +0100, Tom Clark wrote:

Hi,

I'm hoping you'll be able to help. I'm working on a project to migrate our users from a courier-imap (4.3.0) based mail server to a dovecot (2.0.8) mail server.

I have got all the users migrated and working. However, I can't see how to migrate the shared folders from courier-imap. I have tried to find extra information all the migration information seems to centre around a user mailbox rather than shared mailboxes.

Is it simply a case of setting up the shared folders on dovecot, then copying the messages in, finally running the dovecot migration script across them?

Did you want per-user flags with shared folders? IIRC Courier used some weird symlink directory for that, which won't work with Dovecot. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes lists all the ways you can currently do shared folders with Dovecot.

Ok great.

Thanks for your help Timo.

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 30 June 2011 9:09 AM To: Tom Clark Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Migrating shared folders from courier-imap to dovecot

On 30.6.2011, at 11.07, Tom Clark wrote:

I think I confused everyone by referring to them as shared folders (I was using the Courier phrasing).

I'm setting up Public Folders and then limiting access using ACLs. I can get that far as to creating them, I'm just wondering if there was a specific way to migrate from Courier's "public" folders to Dovecot's public folder system, or is it just a case of dropping the mail in?

They're regular maildirs, just use the migration script to them normally.

Am I right in thinking Dovecot doesn't have the "cur" and "new" folders on Public folders?

No. They're normal maildirs with cur/ and new/ directories.