[Dovecot] integration of old mails into new dovecot Maildir

[K. C. Mohan]

Thank you Steffen, for addressing my problem of migrating old mails into new 
mail server. I went through the article you pointed to but could not 
succueed. I will appreciate if you could guide me to step by step process to 
migrate the mails. My old mail server used 2.x dovecot version.

K. C. Mohan

-----Original Message----- 
From: Steffen Kaiser
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 6:14 AM
To: K. C. Mohan - Personal  s
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] integration of old mails into new dovecot Maildir

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, K. C. Mohan - Personal wrote:

> I just installed dovecot 2.2.9 on to a new server and want to transfer all
> the old mails into the email accounts I imported from the previous server
> into MySQL database. I am not able to view the subfolders and or old mails
> that I copied into their respective maildir folders. I was very much
> appreciate if anyone could let me know how to import old mails into the 
> new
> server. All I see, is the new mails that have come into the account since 
> I
> started dovecot service in the new server.

Check out http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration . Read esp. about "preserving
messages' UIDs".

If the old server uses Maildir, too, and you don't care about the UIDs,
copy the files over and you are done.

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Steffen Kaiser
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