On 11/1/2016 3:58 AM, Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote: > On 31 Oct 2016, at 13.11, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: >> Ok, interesting. So... how does dsync do it? Or would it only work >> between two dovecot servers? >> >> I'm interested in migrating from other servers (Office 365 in one case).
> Dsync does not use IMAP protocol to store the mails to storage but instead > uses the > dovecot storage API to do that. Internally we can set what ever properties we > want to > including IMAP UIDs and POP3 UIDLs. > > Migrating from legacy system should then be done by pulling the mails from the > legacy platform by using the imapc connector and storing them by using the > internal apis. > > We can also store mails to imapc: location but in that case there is many > properties that > will be lost due to limitations of the IMAP protocol. Thanks Sami, but I don't see a definitive answer top my question in the above... So, when migrating from legacy system (legacy = non-dovecot) using imapc, is dovecot able to preserver the UIDs? Thanks, and my apologies for being a bit dense...
