On 20.5.2011, at 0.43, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > I've setup a new virtual machine to run my mail servers. Dovecot is > installed and talking with the LDAP server for the user list. Now the > question is how to migrate the data from the old Dovecot to the new. > > The data is stored in mdbox, with some possible corruption. Accordingly, any > form of simple file copy is not the answer - I need the messages to be > processed by something and then stored fresh on the new server. I do have > NFS access both ways if that does anything. > > I tried imapsync - but it quickly broke on some of the messages. Is dsync > the answer? Or do I use a MUA and drag-n-drop the messages a batch at a time > between the servers?
dsync should work for this.. If you run into any bugs with corruption, I can fix them.
