On 12/29/11 5:35 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 22.12.2011, at 3.52, David Jonas wrote: > >> I'm in the process of migrating a large number of maildirs to a 3rd >> party dovecot server (from a dovecot server). Tests have shown that >> using imap to sync the accounts doesn't preserve the uidl for pop3 access. >> >> My current attempt is to convert the maildir to mbox and add an X-UIDL >> header in the process. Run a second dovecot that serves the converted >> mbox. But dovecot's docs say, "None of these headers are sent to >> IMAP/POP3 clients when they read the mail". > > That's rather complex.
Thanks, Timo. Unfortunately I don't have shell access at the new dovecot servers. They have a migration tool that doesn't keep the uids intact when I sync via imap. Looks like I'm going to have to sync twice, once with POP3 (which maintains uids) and once with imap skipping the inbox. Ugh. >> Is there any way to sync these maildirs to the new server and maintain >> the uids? > > What Dovecot versions? dsync could do this easily. You could simply install > the dsync binary even if you're using Dovecot v1.x. Good idea with dsync though, I had forgotten about that. Perhaps they'll do something custom for me. > You could also log in with POP3 and get the UIDL list and write a script to > add them to dovecot-uidlist. >
