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

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 09.09.2011 15:34, schrieb Tobias Hachmer:
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:22:54 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>> Am 09.09.2011 15:14, schrieb Tobias Hachmer:
>>> What is the best way to copy the existing mailboxes from the older
>>> machine running dovecot v1.2.15 to the new naked machine?
>>
>> i used imapsync in a bash script
>> http://ks.lamiral.info/imapsync/
>> at a massive migration
> 
> ok, but this tool is not free of charge.

? you should donate
but you can use it without too, i.e its part of ubuntu

> Are there any known problems just copying the mailboxes with scp or rsync?

may work too,
with few problems depending on your setup, but its no real way if you
make migration on the fly in my eyes

better setup the new server, do tests, make imapsync
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> Tobias
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