On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:36 -0400, FiL wrote: > > I guess you're talking about POP3. You'd need to be able to preserve > > the POP3 UIDLs (see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration), which would > > require that you also preserve the IMAP UIDs in the mbox -> Maildir > > switch. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any scripts that preserves the > > UIDs, although it wouldn't be difficult to write support for that. > > > This is not only about POP3, as far as I can tell. If you converting > mbox to Maildir (dovecot to dovecot) - UIDs change. And if you have your > client set to cache all the messages and > you have over 1Gb in your mail... well, it will be transferring all your > mail again. Deleting the old one (as it is not on the server anymore) > and re-downloading new ones.
Right. But it's not as bad as with POP3 where the messages are downloaded as duplicates. > It would be nice to have Convert plugin, that preserves UIDs and > UIDVALIDITY values. It would require changing Dovecot internals to support that. Not a simple thing to do. > I have all my mbox-es in /raid/mbox/%u > I have set convert_mail = mbox:/raid/mbox/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u in the > dovecot.conf. > But for some reason the folder with mail doesn't get renamed after > conversion. Is that the way it should be? And the destination isn't /raid/mbox/%u? It should have renamed the %u to %u-converted.
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