[Dovecot] Converting huge mbox to Dovecot mbox + indexes

Bertrand Leboeuf leboeuf at emt.inrs.ca
Fri Mar 17 21:16:17 EET 2006


My mistake, good point.

I thought that creating the indexes would take a long time,
but after a couple of tests, I found that Dovecot is so fast 
that it beats UW IMAP even while creating the indexes and 
after that, it is just fast.

Thanks

Bertrand

>From: "David A. Lee" <dlee at calldei.com>
>
>I'm curious why this is an issue ? Wont dovecot make the indexes on first 
>use of the mbox if it finds no indexes ?
>
>
>
>> >From: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:30 -0500, Bertrand Leboeuf wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have ~500 users, some with HUGE mbox (500MB-1GB),
>>>> is there a script to create the Dovecot indexes at night
>>>> to help speed up the migration process.
>>>
>>>If you use the dovecot converter then indexes will be built during the
>>>conversion.
>>>
>>>johannes
>>
>> Good, can I use convert-tool to do: mbox -> mbox + indexes
>>
>> I have not tested the maildir configs yet and I will
>> have to deal with the number of files and their placement.
>>
>> Bertrand
>>
>> 



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