Hello, I am planning to migrate all users from mbox to maildir.
I am trying to do it with minimum downtime. (~100GB data) All users are currently using POP3. Dovecot version is 2.2.10 (latest). Command used is: dsync -u username mirror maildir:~/Maildir Process I plan is: (omitting steps related to sendmail / procmail) 1) keep dovecot running (with mail_location as mbox) 2) dsync for all users (this may take 3-4 hours or more) 3) (downtime starts) stop dovecot and sendmail (to stop new e-mails) 4) block pop3, imap ports on firewall (so users can not connect) 5) start dovecot (still with mbox) 6) dsync again to sync e-mails arrived between step 2 and 3 7) dsync again (just to make sure!) 8) (downtime ends) restart dovecot (with mail_location as maildir) Now, here is my problem. Lets say there is user joe, who has 50 NEW e-mails in mbox (INBOX). Step 2 perfectly syncs his 50 e-mails to 'new' folder of maildir. Now in the mean time, before step 3, he connected via POP3 and downloaded and deleted 50 e-mails. Now when we reach step 6 (re-sync), what I expected was dsync will detect that 50 e-mails are deleted and it will delete 50 e-mails from 'new' directory of maildir. But that is not happening. 50 e-mails are still there. I fear that these e-mails will be re-downloaded on his Outlook once I switch dovecot to maildir. This will happen for each and every user which will cause huge mess. So how to tell, dsync to delete non-existent e-mails which are no more there in mbox (INBOX)? Thanks in advance, Regards, A M
