[Dovecot] cyrus2courier or cyrus2maildir.py, which to choose?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 16:25 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:
> What's the best utility to use to convert mail folders from a cyrus
> 2.2.13-10, on a debian 4.0 Etch system, to folders that can be used by
> dovecot? 
> 
> The http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Cyrus page isn't too clear on
> what's the difference.
> 
> cyrus2courier says "It should be able to preserve message UIDs, flags
> and 26 first keywords."
> 
> cyrus2maildir.py says "preserves delivery timestamps and \Seen flags."
> 
> But does that means that what cyrus2maildir.py preserves is in addition
> to what cyrus2courier preserves?  Or is what cyrus2maildir preserves a
> subset of what cyrus2courier preserves?

cyrus2courier does everything, but it requires a supported Cyrus
version.

I think cyrus2maildir.py was written during the time when cyrus2courier
hadn't yet been updated to newer Cyrus versions. It doesn't preserve any
flags other than \Seen.

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