[Dovecot] Moving mail servers, moving mailboxes

[Michael]

Hi,  I don't think dsync works between 1.x and 2.x.

I have migrated a few of my clients exchange servers to my dovecot 
servers and I always find LARCH https://github.com/rgrove/larch works 
really well.

Michael.


On 17/04/2013 2:59 PM, Gregory Sloop wrote:
> I hate to bug anyone about this again, but I'm really unsure of how best to
> proceed.
>
> If someone could point me in a good direction - a web-link or link to
> a relevant listserv thread - I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Some additional searches have given me _some_ new ideas.
>   - I've seen about dsync - but it appears that would only help between
> two v2.x Postfix machines, correct? [Or will it pull from 1.x to 2.x
> without an issue?]
>
> TIA
>
> -Greg
>
> GS> So, I've done some searching - but search terms are hard to come by,
> GS> that work, for this query.
>
> GS> In short, migrating a RHEL 5.9 server running the back-ported Dovecot 1.0.7
> GS> To: Ububtu 12.04 with 2.0.19, I believe.
>
> GS> [I'm not against compiling a more recent version if there's some real
> GS> advantage to doing so. But I'd certainly prefer to stay with the
> GS> packaged version.]
>
> GS> Most users are POP3, with some leaving messages on the server for a
> GS> while.
>
> GS> Other users are IMAP - whole mail repository on server.
>
> GS> ---
> GS> In an ideal world, I'd like to simply copy all the mailboxes/dirs from one
> GS> server to the other. [Local/LAN file copies are possible]
>
> GS> It would be great if the message ID's wouldn't change, so the
> GS> read/unread/new etc status all all the messages wouldn't change
> GS> between the two servers for POP/IMAP.
>
> GS> ---
> GS> So, does anyone have a reasonable walk-through for doing so?
> GS> Is this a poor idea?
> GS> Should I simply set myself on fire now and save everyone a lot of hassle? :)
> GS> Would you suggest an alternative, and tell me if it might achieve the
> GS> objectives above?
>
> GS> I'm more than glad to take pointers to threads on this topic. I just
> GS> haven't been able to dredge this up with my Google-foo.
>
> GS> TIA
> GS> -Greg
>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards, Michael.