[Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

[Noel Butler]

On 04/11/2013 14:33, Regan Yelcich wrote:
> On 2/11/2013, at 11:40 pm, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/11/2013 20:25, Regan Yelcich wrote:
>>> Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to
>>> Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on Ubuntu? Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> mb2md.pl
>> 
>> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
> 
> 
> I don't need to do anything specific for Dovecot? It'll see the new
> Maildir account and automatically create the indexes etc?

IIRC it shows you how to use it, you need to indicate where the new 
maildir is, if you have only a few, do them all manually, if you have 
many, write a quick bash or perl script to do them, and dovecot will 
create the indexes when they login.

You will need to tell dovecot to look for the new location though, if 
your using system users as I suspect you are, then maildir:~/Maildir 
should do it *but* dont forget to make sure your MTA knows to use 
maildir as well, I've not worked with system users for a decade, but I 
think in postfix   home_mailbox = Maildir/ will do it, with sendmail its 
much more tricky and your best sticking with mbox, if exim, NFI - dont 
use it :)