On 20.4.2012, at 22.26, Jeff Simmons wrote: > I'm migrating an old UW pop server to a new Dovecot server. The old server > did > not allow mail to be stored on the server, so only mbox files exist in > /var/mail, with nothing in /home/$user. I'd like to copy the /var/mail > directory over to the new server and then use dsync to convert the mbox files > and put them in /home/$user/Maildir, but every permutation of the command > line > I've tried dies with a variation on can't find/write either /var/mail/mail or > /home/$user/mail, seems it won't deal with mbox files without an associated > mail directory. Can dsync be used for this kind of conversion, or should I > look elsewhere for conversion utilities?
Assuming in destination server the mbox is in /var/mail/$user and you want the destination to ~/Maildir: in dovecot.conf set: mail_location = maildir.~/Maildir rm -rf /tmp/emptydir dsync mirror mbox:/tmp/emptydir:/var/mail/$user be sure to delete the emptydir between users.
