[Dovecot] Moving mail servers, moving mailboxes

[Gregory Sloop]

TS> 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.

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

Thanks Timo for the answer - that helps a lot...

Now, some follow-up.

I assume this means that all version of 2.x (to current) can read 1.x files. [If
I'm wrong, please correct me.]

Is there a tool to convert/migrate the mailbox format from v1 to 2, or
does v2 do it "automagically" or something?

[I'm sure there must be a tool, but some searching wasn't finding it for me.]

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As long as I'm asking about mailbox formats, is it possible to use
DBox with postfix - it appears on the Wiki that it's not, but then I
find posts on the web that appear to indicate it *is* possible.
[We're using Postfix as our MTA.]

Thanks again all!

-Greg


>> 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]

TS> You can do that. Or use rsync.


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