[Dovecot] merging Maildir from old machine to new machine

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 12 11:03:44 EET 2008


On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Larry Vaden wrote:

> Given a new mail store using Postfix and Dovecot (Maildir), is it
> possible to transfer from the old mail box (running the same config)
> or will this generate problems with the various indices maintained by
> Dovecot?

Shouldn't be, although if you're moving from different CPU  
architecture or if file offset size changed (by defaut 64bit  
everywhere) then they'll be silently rebuilt. At least with newer  
versions.

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