Migrate Dovecot email archive

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, Marco Usai wrote:

> Yesterday I'vemigrated Dovecot mail archive between two servers using the procedure below:
> 1) Createon the new server the same email accounts existing on the old server.
> 2) Transferthe "tarred" mail folder from the old to the new server.
> For testingpurposes, on Outlook 2007 I've deleted a .pst cache file, forcing the client todownload all emails again.
>
> The switchwas absolutely transparent without any problem. All the emails were availableand Outlook 2007 noticed no changes.
> Can Iconsider this a correct procedure or should I use some tools like Dsync ?

If you do not change the mail storage format (Maildir -> dbox, or 
something like that), do not change 32bit -> 64bit, big / little endian 
a.s.o.

and if you make sure the old mailbox is not accessed, while you copy the 
data over,

it should work :-)

In fact, I use "rsync".

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Steffen Kaiser
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