[Dovecot] Silent migration from mbox to maildir?
Hi,
after migrating to a new hardware (which is soo soooo mutch faster than the old one) I start to think about migrating from mbox to maildir.
I'v read some docs and wikies and some questions are unanswered or maybe I skip the answers:
Is it possible to migrate the mboxes "silent" e.g. if a user logs in the mbox is converted?
regarding the Namespaces wiki article, it is possible to mix mbox and Maildir for one user. Is it possible to use this setup for all newly created accounts?
or
- Is it possible to have maildir set up for all newly created accounts while the old accounts still use mbox?
Thanks for any suggestion and best regards,
Götz-- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
- Is it possible to migrate the mboxes "silent" e.g. if a user logs in the mbox is converted?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert is supposed to do that.
Regards,
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On 01/12/2010 03:23 PM Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
Hi,
after migrating to a new hardware (which is soo soooo mutch faster than the old one) I start to think about migrating from mbox to maildir.
I'v read some docs and wikies and some questions are unanswered or maybe I skip the answers:
- Is it possible to migrate the mboxes "silent" e.g. if a user logs in the mbox is converted?
Yes, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert
- regarding the Namespaces wiki article, it is possible to mix mbox and Maildir for one user. Is it possible to use this setup for all newly created accounts?
I'm happily Namespace free. ;-) But I believe the configured Namespace settings are for all users. And I'm not sure if one can overwrite Namespace settings with user database extra fields.
- Is it possible to have maildir set up for all newly created accounts while the old accounts still use mbox?
It's possible to set the mail_location per user. In order to do this, your user database has to return a mail field. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase
Regards, Pascal
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Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
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Pascal Volk
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Steffen Kaiser