[Dovecot] Moving mail servers, moving mailboxes

[Timo Sirainen]

On 16.4.2013, at 2.48, Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote:

> In short, migrating a RHEL 5.9 server running the back-ported Dovecot 1.0.7
> To: Ububtu 12.04 with 2.0.19, I believe.

Dovecot v2.0 can use v1.0's mbox/maildir files including their metadata. v2.0 should also be able to read v1.0's index files without errors.

> In an ideal world, I'd like to simply copy all the mailboxes/dirs from one
> server to the other. [Local/LAN file copies are possible]

You can do that. Or use rsync.