On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What did you think of mbox to Maildir conversion tools that can be found
> on www.qmail.org?
>
I found them to be very basic and assuming that a given user would only
have one mbox file. I have users that have up to 100 separate mbox files that
are imap folders, not including their /var/spool/mail/username inbox file. I
tried one of the scripts on an inbox and it seemed to work ok. But no matter
what I did I couldn't seem to get it to accept a wildcard, ie convert all files
in one directory into a users maildir.
I think I will have to devote some serious time to this issue, since I
want to acheive the following:
1. Preserve existing imap folders and keep the same messages in them, the imap
folder structure will need to be for Courier 1.1.
2. Preserve the read and unread flags for all messages.
3. Create the courierimapsubscribed, courierimapuiddb, and maildir files in the
appropriate places with the correct values in them.
Basically, the entire migration should be totally transparent to the end users
with zero downtime. I will just change the existing mail server record in the
DNS to point to the new server when I'm finished.
Regards,
Mike
