[Dovecot] Converting huge mbox to Dovecot mbox + indexes

[David A. Lee]

Thats good to hear ! It will also save you tiny amounts of disk space if you 
defer indexing ...
people who dont long in, or dont access all their folders wont need indexes.
I'm a dovecot "newbie" but I didnt have to do any conversions except convert 
some old "mbx" folders I had from UW ... I used the "mailutil" program from 
UW to convert from mbx to mbox



> 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 ?
>>
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>>> >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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