[Dovecot] Questions regarding dbox migration

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Oct 14 19:21:42 EEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:18 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > The main problem with it is actually how to make it enough backwards
> > compatible that everyone won't start hating me.
> 
> I honestly don't see that ever happening Timo - and please, don't go
> down the same road Microsoft did with Windows.
> 
> Not that you need any help, but I would suggest to just focus on making
> the conversion tools (mbox/maildir > (m)dbox, old config > new config,
> etc) rock solid, and document any incompatibilities really well.

Well, the old config -> new config tool is probably the way I'm going,
but that still needs to be written. :)

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