[Dovecot] Cyrus MailDir to Dovecot mbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:02 -0600, CJ Keist wrote:
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> Timo,
>     Thanks.  The cyrus2dovecot looks to have worked.  So if I understand
> the process I now just move the MailDir folder that was created to the
> users home directory on our mail server.  I will try the dovecot convert
> plugin.  Just make sure I'm doing this correct in the config file:

If you do it only once, you don't need to use convert plugin. There's
also a convert-tool binary included.

> mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = convert
> }
> plugin {
>   convert_mail = Maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u
> }
> 
> Is this correct? The example on the website only shows how to convert
> from mbox to MailDir.

That looks also correct.

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