On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Jeff Gustafson <ncjeff...@zimage.com> wrote: > I looked around the 'Net to see if there might be a custom program for > offline Maildir to mdbox conversion. So far I haven't turned up > anything. The problem for us is that the dsync program simply takes a > lot of time to convert mailboxes. I wonder if time could be saved with a > program that is optimized to convert mailboxes without the fancy locking > that dsync needs to do. Does have (or seen) a tool that could do this?
Why is it a problem that dsync takes a long time, when it can be done without downtime for the users? I just started our maildir->mdbox convertion yesterday, using the attached script. I only converted a little over 10000 easy accounts (accounts with simple folder names, as I expect to run into problems once we start hitting accounts with trailing dot or broken latin1/utf8 characters in the folder names). I might agree it wasn't quick, but that really doesn't matter as the only downtime for the user is that he's potentially kicked out during the userdb update. -jf > We're hoping that converting away from Maildir will help us speed up > the backup processes by reducing the number of files to process. >
migrer-til-mdbox.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
