[Dovecot] Shutting down my Dovecot server?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On 28.11.2012 18:10, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:12:15 +0100, Bjørn T Johansen said:
>> I am planning to shut down my own Dovecot server and start using the
>> other Dovecot server I am administering together with a friend..
>>
>> And I was thinking that I don't want to copy the emails I have on my
>> server so I want to start from scratch on the other server.. But I
>> would like to be able to look at the old emails if I need to, so was
>> wondering if there is a way to do this without using an imap server?
>> Can I convert my mails stored in the maildir format to mbox or is
>> there a better way to solve my problem?
>
> I'm not sure why you want to convert to mbox, especially when there 
> are
> multiple mbox versions.
>
> I'm also not sure why you don't want to copy emails. How else would
> they appear on the new server. I suppose you could use rsync to copy
> the data itself.
>
> You use Claws-Mail. If I were in your shoes, I'd bring up the empty
> Dovecot server and make a new Claws-Mail account for that empty 
> server.
> Then in Claws-Mail I'd use the copy feature to copy whole folder 
> trees
> to the new server. Once that's done, I'd reconfigure your original
> Dovecot so it can serve only on its local machine, and bang, you have
> your new server, with old emails you can look at.
>
> This is similar to the procedure I used to move my Kmail folders 
> (over
> 100K messages) to Dovecot.
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm
>
> HTH,
>
> SteveT

Well, I could do that... But you see, there is not much of the emails I 
have at the moment that I really need, I might need one now and then...
So that is why I don't want to copy almost 10GB of email to the new 
server...

But I guess that might be the most practical solution perhaps... 
Doesn't seem to be a better solution....


BTJ

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