On 8.11.2011, at 16.16, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Morten Stevens <mstev...@imt-systems.com>: > >> We have switched our mailbox storage format from maildir to mdbox! > > I wonder how I can incrementally change over from Maildir to mdbox? > I can of course use dsync to mirror Maildir: to mdbox:, but how can I > make dovecot look at Maildir FIRST and (if that fails) at mdbox? (or > vice versa). > > That would allow for a smooth transition...
If you don't have shared folders (as explained in previous mail) and you can have per-user mail_location in the userdb, this should be pretty easy. The man page for dsync lists the steps that can be used for online migration.
