[Dovecot] Migration from Courier to dovecot

[David Halik]

On 01/20/2010 05:35 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 21.1.2010, at 0.23, Werner Detter wrote:
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>>> The conversion of the Mailbox from Courier to Dovecot will be done with
>>> "courier-dovecot-migrate.pl"-script[1], which works fine. However after
>>> running "courier-dovecot-migrate.pl" the Courier-Files still remain in
>>> the Maildir.
>>>        
>> expressed unlucky :-)
>>
>> sure, dovecot doesn't need these files after the migration. I have to
>> test, if it's possible to convert from a previously "courier to
>> dovecot migrated maildir" back to courier-format.
>>      
> Some version of the script can do dovecot ->  courier migration, without the courier* files, but perhaps unsurprisingly I've never been interested in writing or testing that code, so in the recent versions that I've modified it's probably broken.
>
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>    

I just wanted to chime in that we're going to rewriting part of the 
script to handle --location= at some point if anyone is interested. The 
script works great, but it doesn't have the ability to point to an area 
outside of the users' homedir for the conversion. If you're moving your 
users' index/uid/subscriptions to a non-quota area outside their homedir 
then this is necessary.

Unfortunately,  that was something we learned too late after we did our 
migration. =)

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David Halik
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