[Dovecot] How to pull /var/mail mbox leftovers to Maildirs?
I just got my preferred postfix+dovecot(-1.1.1) configuration working on Ubuntu 8.04 server. Users and Maildirs migrated, etc.
I wasn't seeing inbound mail (in the email client) until I set:
sudo postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'
Which I hadn't needed in the previous server's main.cf
I have a few hours worth of inbound mostly-spam in /var/mail/(username) during the time I was figuring this out.
What command line tools could I use to pull those message from the mboxes to the Maildirs?
Thanks.
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:15:20 -0400 Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
I just got my preferred postfix+dovecot(-1.1.1) configuration working on Ubuntu 8.04 server. Users and Maildirs migrated, etc.
I wasn't seeing inbound mail (in the email client) until I set:
sudo postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'
Which I hadn't needed in the previous server's main.cf
I have a few hours worth of inbound mostly-spam in /var/mail/(username) during the time I was figuring this out.
What command line tools could I use to pull those message from the mboxes to the Maildirs?
The attached script might help. I used it during migration from UW-IMAP to dovecot. It worked, although I'm not the author :-)
--Frank Elsner
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Frank Elsner frank@moltke28.b.shuttle.de wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:15:20 -0400 Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
I just got my preferred postfix+dovecot(-1.1.1) configuration working on Ubuntu 8.04 server. Users and Maildirs migrated, etc.
I wasn't seeing inbound mail (in the email client) until I set:
sudo postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'
Which I hadn't needed in the previous server's main.cf
I have a few hours worth of inbound mostly-spam in /var/mail/(username) during the time I was figuring this out.
What command line tools could I use to pull those message from the mboxes to the Maildirs?
The attached script might help. I used it during migration from UW-IMAP to dovecot. It worked, although I'm not the author :-)
Actually, it's better than mb2md. I have used it before on a large scale migration (about 40k users).
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Frank Elsner
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Jeff Kowalczyk
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Odhiambo Washington