[Dovecot] Dsync converting dbox->Maildir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Feb 17 12:32:03 EET 2013


Ah, right. dsync preserves the dbox GUIDs by storing them into filenames instead. Anyway, if you use dict-file quota backend there's no slowness (but yes, with maildir quota backend is).

On 17.2.2013, at 12.25, Anes Mukhametov <dovecot at anes.su> wrote:

> I used dsync mirror: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
> AFAIK without S field there is big overhead with quota recalculation.
> 
> Timo Sirainen писал 2013-02-16 20:29:
>> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 12:28 +0400, Anes Mukhametov wrote:
>>> I've changed my mailbox format from dbox to Maildir. The problem is maildir
>>> message filename extension has no S=/W= field after migration.
>>> Using dovecot 2.1.15.
>> How did you change it? dsync is the only tool that can properly do it,
>> and it definitely adds the S/W fields.
>> Anyway, Dovecot can handle maildir files without S/W files anyway. But
>> if you really want to add them, use
>> http://dovecot.org/tools/maildir-size-fix.pl with -a parameter. It adds
>> only S though, no W support yet.
> 
> 




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