[Dovecot] BestPractice to migrate imap mailbox from one machine to another

[Giulio Casella]

This is working for me:

root at oldserver # dsync -v -D -u $user backup ssh newserver dsync -u $user

where $user is a username. oldserver and newserver can also have different 
mailbox format (in my case was mbox -> maildir)

Regards,
gc

-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: Re: [Dovecot] BestPractice to migrate imap mailbox from one machine to 
another
Data: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:50:49 +0200
Mittente: Tobias Hachmer <tobias at hachmer.de>
A: <dovecot at dovecot.org>

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:42:57 +0200, Giulio Casella wrote:
> Have you tried dsync (part of dovecot)? I don't know if it works for
> migration to a different (major) version of dovecot, but it's a nice
> tool. And it works also over ssh.

Yeah, I read the sections in the dovecot v2 wiki, but I don't get how
to use for migration.
As far as I understood it's to keep several dovecot server at a unique
data bank. An well, can I use it between dovecot v1.2 and v2?

Tobias

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Giulio Casella                                         giulio at dsi.unimi.it
System and network manager
Computer Science Dept. - University of Milano