On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:11:20 +0100, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 21:56 +0300, Luben Karavelov wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:23:29 +0100, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> > On 17.10.2010, at 17.52, Roland Stuehmer wrote: >> > >> >> How can I convert old mailboxes in "maildir-dbox hybrid" to a current >> >> dbox? >> > >> > Does this help? http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-September/053012.html >> >> If I understand it correctly, dbox/maildir hybrid is when there are >> some messages >> stored as maildir msgs and some messages in dbox format, isn't it? > > Right. > >> The conversion, as described in the suggested post seems like a lot of >> trouble. > > Yeah. > >> So, I have some questions: >> >> In the first scenario, if I redeliver maildir-format messages, does the >> users that >> use POP3 and store their mail on the server will re-download all >> redelivered >> messages? (if it does matter, my pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv). > > Yes, pop3 users will redownload mails. > >> The other option - convert the dbox-es back to maildir, move the old >> maildir >> messages in the new maildir, manually add them to the new uid-list and >> finally >> convert the new maildir to sdbox - seems quite fragile. > > Yeah. Not very nice either. Here's a 3rd option: Apply the attached > patch to v1.2 and then open all users' all mailboxes (write a script or > something). It should convert all maildir files to dbox files. Try with > one account first to make sure it works. :)
Thanks Timo, I will try the patch and report back. -- Luben Karavelov Research and development Spectrum Net JSC 36, D-r G. M. Dimitrov Blvd. 1797 Sofia Mobile: +359 884332840 url: www.spnet.net
