Problem migrating POP accounts into dovecot

Jesús Ángel del Pozo Domínguez jesusangel.delpozo at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 09:35:21 EEST 2021


Dear Aki,

I don't think so. As far as I know, courier can't access mailbox inboxes,
so POP3 is the only way to read the emails in those inboxes.

Yours sincerely,

El lun., 9 ago. 2021 6:41 a. m., Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>
escribió:

>
> > On 04/08/2021 16:15 Jesús Ángel del Pozo Domínguez <
> jesusangel.delpozo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to migrate mailboxes from an old pop/imap server to a new
> one using Dovecot 2.3.15. The old server uses tpop3d and courier as POP and
> IMAP servers, respectively.
> >
> > Whereas I can migrate IMAP mailboxes without many problems, I am facing
> difficulties while trying to do the same with POP ones. The problem is that
> dsync opens simultaneous connections to the remote POP server, so the
> remote mailbox gets locked and dsync can not copy the messages.
>
> Is it possible to migrate the POP3 accounts over IMAP, and use
> https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/plugin/pop3-migration-plugin/?
>
> Aki
>
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