Thanks for the tips Noel I'll give that a go. I'm moving just a small number of mailboxes over from system users on one server to a new server using a virtual user setup = dovecot + postfix & postfix admin using MySQL. Thanks!
> On 4/11/2013, at 10:29 pm, Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: > >> On 04/11/2013 14:33, Regan Yelcich wrote: >>> On 2/11/2013, at 11:40 pm, Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: >>>> On 02/11/2013 20:25, Regan Yelcich wrote: >>>> Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to >>>> Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on Ubuntu? Thanks. >>> mb2md.pl >>> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ >> I don't need to do anything specific for Dovecot? It'll see the new >> Maildir account and automatically create the indexes etc? > > IIRC it shows you how to use it, you need to indicate where the new maildir > is, if you have only a few, do them all manually, if you have many, write a > quick bash or perl script to do them, and dovecot will create the indexes > when they login. > > You will need to tell dovecot to look for the new location though, if your > using system users as I suspect you are, then maildir:~/Maildir should do it > *but* dont forget to make sure your MTA knows to use maildir as well, I've > not worked with system users for a decade, but I think in postfix > home_mailbox = Maildir/ will do it, with sendmail its much more tricky and > your best sticking with mbox, if exim, NFI - dont use it :) >
