On Friday, October 08, 2010 02:33 PM CDT, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > Please don't top-post...
I do apologize, I was using my webmail program and it was not setup properly > > On 2010-10-08 3:15 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: > > On Friday, October 08, 2010 02:01 PM CDT, Charles Marcus > > <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > >>> On 2010-10-08 2:53 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: > >> I don't think the version matters much at this point though. > > > 2.0 has been a bit buggy, so in this case, it does matter... > > > Gotcha, so should I stay with the 1.2.xx branch and just use the > > mail_convert plugin? > > Or upgrade to 2.0.5 on the new server and still use doveadm - this is > probably best if you can... > The newest I see for an rpm is 2.0.4 on the atrpms site. We try not to build from source due to the way a previous admin messed things up. Any pointers on a source for the 2.0.5 rpm? > Honestly though, I'm not really the best one to be advising you on this > (I know enough to be dangerous, have played with the tools, but don't > provide any warranties, etc)... > > > The only issue I have with that one is that I can't do it gradually > > and it pegs the server for all it has when a user is converted. > > You can convert one or a few at a time, and I don't see any reason why > you couldn't 'nice' the process somehow (not sure exactly how though)... > > > Is there a better way to migrate from mbox to Maildir and also from > > old machine to new? That is my end goal, migrate to new machine and > > to Maildir. Anything else is not really a huge deal. > > I think the best thing would be to do what you need to do to get 2.0.5 > installed on the new server, make sure it is working properly in your > environment and for your use case, then migrate the users. > > How many users do you have? I'm fairly certain there is a good way to do > this mostly automated in batches... > We have about 160 users I believe at last count. Mail boxes range in size from a few MB to around 8GB. Being a state agency, they tell us we cannot delete any mail. This is why I am wanting to switch to Maildir so I can migrate "old" messages off to a different machine/disk for archival purposes but still remain accessible. > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles -- Donny B.
