[Dovecot] batch convert mbox to maildir

[Todd Piket]

I did not use the the libc-client Perl bindings...sorry.  I used a 
modified version of mb2md-3.20.  It was pretty simple really.  If you'd 
like to look at/dowload the source please visit:

http://svn.dcs.it.mtu.edu/email.mtu.edu/convert_tools/tags/mb2md-release-4.0/
(I have my own release numbers for the whole system I wrapped around mb2md).

Not a lot of documentation and there is a lot that is specific to my 
site, but it shouldn't be too hard to decipher and you can always ask me 
questions, though I'm going to take a well earned next 2 days off.

If anyone is interested, the conversion we just performed has been in 
place for ~5 days now.  Only a handful of the ~30,000 users we converted 
noticed we even did anything (except performance) is better (this was in 
large part due to the UIDL code I added to mb2md).  We are now huge 
Dovecot fans!

Regards,

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| Todd Piket                        | Email: todd at mtu.edu    |
| Programmer/Analyst                | Phone: (906) 487-1720  |
| Distributed Computing Services    |                        |
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pod wrote:
>>>>>> "TP" == Todd Piket <todd at mtu.edu> writes:
> 
>     [...]
>     TP> If you would like the source for this system I would be happy to
>     TP> provide it.  There is no documentation right now as it was a one
>     TP> time only thing, but I can try to explain.  If others are
>     TP> interested just let me know.  The whole thing is written in Perl
>     TP> and expects to be run as root.  It chowns everything in the final
>     TP> steps.
> 
> I'm definitely interested.  What you've done sounds fabulous.  I'm going
> to be needing to convert our users here at Oxford soon from uw-imap mbx
> (not Berkley mbox) to dovecot maildir on a similar scale.
> 
> Did you use the libc-client perl bindings for reading the mbox?  If you
> did then adapting for mbx should be a piece of cake.  If not then I'll
> need to do some work; I'm more than happy to submit patches back.