[Dovecot] migration from IMAP/POP3 courier server to a remote dovecot server

[nik600]

to give some more information, i've set

pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v

on the courier-side i get this UIDL answer:

UIDL
+OK
1 1378040847.Vfe11I12801312M172099.myserver.cloud923
2 UID2-1378040947
3 UID3-1378040947
4 UID4-1378040947
5 UID5-1378040947


on the dovecot-side i get this UIDL answer:
UIDL
+OK
1 UID1-1378127599
2 UID2-1378127599
3 UID3-1378127599
4 UID4-1378127599
5 UID5-1378127599





2013/9/2 nik600 <nik600 at gmail.com>

> Dear all
>
> i'm planning a transparent migration from a courier server that provides
> both IMAP and POP3 access to users to a remote dovecot server with both
> IMAP and POP3 access.
>
> I have to migrate about 2500 users for 250 GB of space.
>
> I'm using dovecot 2.2.5.4 on debian6 squeeze.
>
> To make a transparent migration i have to maintain old IMAP UIDs and POP3
> UIDs, so i've read
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration
> and
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier
> and
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync
>
> And decided that probably the best tool to use is Dsync, as the
> courier-dovecot-migrate.pl<http://www.dovecot.org/tools/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl> script
> works only locally.
>
> I've tested the dsync following instructions reported above but after the
> migration of one test-account the client re-download messages.
>
>
> If i want to keep both  IMAP UIDs and POP3 UIDs i have to sync both imapc
> and pop3c with two commands?
>
> doveadm -o imapc_user=foo -o pop3c_user=foo -o imapc_password=bar -o pop3c_password=bar backup -R -u user at domain imapc:
>
> doveadm -o imapc_user=foo -o pop3c_user=foo -o imapc_password=bar -o pop3c_password=bar backup -R -u user at domain pop3c:
>
> Or imapc is enough?
>
> Do you have any suggestion?
>
> Thanks
>
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>



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