Quoting Eric Rostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Quoting Eric and Barbara Sammons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox.
I did the same. I'm sure you'll be pleased by the results. I assume
you are using 1.0 and not 0.99 versions?
I have been able to find
mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little
luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where I
wish to keep mbox. ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the case I
wish to take baby steps.)
There is nothing wrong with staying with mbox. There may be reasons it
is best or better to do so (then again, there could be reasons to go
to maildir instead -- it all depends on your needs and setup).
There are few pages about the migration because there is so little to
do for it.
I have setup dovecot pop3 communication and I go to my email client and
everything works fine with the exception that all mail I have previously
read (when using UW as my POP server) is downloaded again as NEW. Is there
a way to prevent this from happening without setting my client to delete
mail from server?
Did you set up your UID format properly in dovecot.conf? It should be:
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu
Other than that, it should pretty much work from my experience...
thank you!
Not sure I helped any, but you're welcome in any case.
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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
Go Longhorns!
I just did the exact same thing, with little problem for 750 user
accounts stored in an openldap database. I had to change from a
.mailboxlist to .subscriptions for their imap folders, but that wasnt
any big deal. So far (knock wood) is working very well, users have no
idea things have been switched. I did very little config for dovecot.
I have imap and pop clients.
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Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools
