On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT), Joseph Tam <jtam.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote: > >> We have an older mail server using qpopper and the mbox format which we >> need to update to dovecot and maildir format. I have read through the >> docs >> on migrating from mbox to maildir, as well as a few nuggets on how to >> migrate from qpopper to dovecot, and I was wondering if I could get some >> suggestions on best practices for this specific migration. Would the >> built >> in dovecot conversion plugin be a viable method to migrate users? We >> will >> be migrating to dovecot 2.0.12 from qpopper 4.0.5. > > I didn't do anything special other than to use > > pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes > > so that clients don't re-download all their messages. > > Joseph Tam <jtam.h...@gmail.com>
Joseph, Did you convert the mbox emails to maildir format as well, or just put dovecot in front of the mbox files and run with the config setting you described above? I am attempting to convert all the mbox files to maildir format for use on a new system, and have found the mb2md.pl script on this page: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat I am going to test the script against a test user and see if it functions as expected.
