[Dovecot] Safe/preferred way to import old email

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sat Jun 15 00:00:57 EEST 2013


Am 14.06.2013 22:10, schrieb Ajai Khattri:
> One small problem (I should have described better): the old server is not available but I've have the maildirs
> rsynced to the new server. So I have the actual message files but I'm not sure if simply copying them into the new
> maildirs is a good idea :-)
> 
> On Friday, June 14, 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
>     Am 14.06.2013 21:59, schrieb Ajai Khattri:
>     > Ive migrated from a qmail+Courier-IMAP setup to a Postfix+Dovecot setup.
>     > I'm using maildirs in both places.
>     >
>     > Is there a safe/preferred way to bring my old messages over without them
>     > being marked as new in Dovecot?
> 
>     imapsync

well, that must answer people which where in the situation of a not
really prepared migration why you *should not* reply off-list!

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