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

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 09/09/11 09:34, Tobias Hachmer wrote:
> 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.
> Are there any known problems just copying the mailboxes with scp or 
> rsync?
> 

https://fedorahosted.org/released/imapsync/