[Dovecot] Safe/preferred way to import old email

[Simon B]

On 14 Jun 2013 23:01, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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!
>

So.. you are rsynced courier imap folders to a new server that has dovecot
on it?

Hopefully you used the -a flag.

Courier-to-dovecot script?

Simon