[Dovecot] Mailbox format conversion with dsync

[Pascal Volk]

On 11/12/2009 12:42 AM Pascal Volk wrote:
> On 11/11/2009 06:47 PM Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> example:
>> dsync -e 'dsync -r -O -o mail_location=maildir:~/Maildir'
> 
> For the archive:
> I'm using virtual users, without system access. So I had to add
> '-u user' to both dsync commands. It was also necessary to set the
> permissions of the auth-userdb socket to 0666. Because each user
> has its own UID and GID per domain.
> 
> doveconf -n
> …
> service auth {
>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>     mode = 438
>   }
> }
> …

Converting from one mailbox format to another one is now simple as never
before.
Assuming that the mail_location is set to mdbox:~/mdbox and before it
was maildir:~/Maildir:
execute:
	dsync convert maildir:~/Maildir

If you are root and want to covert the format of a mailbox from a
virtual user (w/o) system access, execute:
	dsync -u john.doe at example.com maildir:~/Maildir

Don't forget to update your sieve rules when switching to dbox or mdbox.
For example:
	fileinto "lists.dovecot";
becomes:
	fileinto "lists/dovecot";


Regards,
Pascal
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