[Dovecot] cyrus2dovecot description on the wiki (Was: cyrus2courrier mass migration)

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Wed Sep 24 19:12:27 EEST 2008


On 9/24/2008 11:47 AM, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Holger Weiss <holger at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE>:
> 
>> However, for our conversion, we've written our own "cyrus2dovecot"
>> which also supports skiplist databases (amongst another few features
>> not provided by the other tools):
> 
>> 	http://cyrus2dovecot.sw.fu-berlin.de/
> 
> The wiki page says "cyrus2dovecot doesn't preserve timestamps or flags"
> 	http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Cyrus
> 
> However, the cyrus2dovecot home page says:
>  "Virtually all available metadata is preserved during the
>   conversion. This includes the UID and INTERNALDATE of each message,
>   the IMAP folder subscriptions, the UIDVALIDITY and UIDNEXT values for
>   each folder, as well as all IMAP flags (i.e., \Recent, \Seen,
>   \Answered, \Flagged, \Draft, \Deleted) and the first 26 user-defined
>   keywords."
> 
> Which to me sounds like the opposite of what the dovecot wiki says.
> 
> Perhaps the wiki should be updated?

Looks like there are 2 different scripts. If you click the link
referenced on  the dovecot wiki, it takes you to a different 'homepage'
for cyrus2dovecot.

But yeah, if the one you referenced above works well, the wiki should be
changed to reflect use of this new one (with the permission of the
author of course)...

-- 

Best regards,

Charles


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