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

Tobias Hachmer tobias at hachmer.de
Fri Sep 9 20:05:08 EEST 2011


On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:16:57 +0200, Giulio Casella wrote:
> 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)

Thanks for your replies, I will test first the simple copy of the 
maildirs when the new server is set up.
So thanks a lot.

Greetz, Tobias




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