> On 01 Feb 2016, at 23:39, Mark Little <marklit...@koallo.com> wrote: > > Hi Timo, > > Thank you very much for the information. I had seen the DSync page but I was > confused as to how to configure it. I'd definitely love to be able to get > the proper dsync migration working as I have some clients who use POP3 and > others who use IMAP and I want to make this seamless for all if possible. > > Could you please elaborate on how I specify the alternate dovecot.conf? I've > gone through the man pages and I don't see anything referencing -c for > doveadm? Or do you mean that I should be running the full dovecot server > process from the source server with an alternate configuration?
-c is a global option for all dovecot binaries, including doveadm. I guess all the global options should be included in all the man pages.. > If I change the name space won't it fail to find the local folders in their > mailbox? I'm not sure what you mean here. It's possible to switch between namespaces on the fly without losing anything (besides clients seeing them differently). > > > Cheers, > Mark > > On 2016-01-30 19:05, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> On 29 Jan 2016, at 23:16, Mark Little <marklit...@koallo.com> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> I'm hoping I am just missing something obvious - but I cannot seem to get a >>> one-way migration dsync working between two Dovecot servers because the >>> Prefix configuration is different. >> I think a regular dsync -> dsync migration won't work then directly, >> because it assumes similar source and destination namespaces. One >> possibility would be that if you start dsync from the destination >> server, you simply point it to a configuration with a similar >> namespace config (via -c dovecot.conf) as the source. It should still >> write everything correctly so that afterwards you can run with the >> wanted the namespace prefix (i.e. prefix can be changed in >> dovecot.conf without having to modify any per-user files). Another >> possibility would be to do imapc sync and set imapc_prefix=INBOX. - >> see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync
