Hi,
I have some strange things and at the end I am not sure if the migration
is (will be) OK.
I have a testuser for testing the mbox 2 Maildir migration. It did not
received new email during the following steps:
sudo -u testuser doveadm sync maildir:/home/testuser/Maildir
dsync(testuser): War
Sorry. I had wrong syntax. Missing "mbox:"
It is OK with this:
doveadm sync -RD mbox:~/mail/
On 02/05/2019 10:48 AM, Tamas Hegedus wrote:
Hi,
I am experimenting with the migration.
I unset mail_location, thus it is empty and dovecot performs automatic
mailbox detection. Therefore I do not need
Hi,
I am experimenting with the migration.
I unset mail_location, thus it is empty and dovecot performs automatic
mailbox detection. Therefore I do not need per-user set of mail
location. I login as a testuser and do:
doveadm sync maildir:~/Maildir
It seems for me that in this situation the n
Tamas Hegedus, 29.01.19:
* Configuration uses mail_location = mbox:~/mails
* setup per-user mail location and do for each user individually in a
serial manner:
-- doveadm sync maildir:~/Maildir; mbox is synced to Maildir, long running
time
[1]
-- doveadm sync maildir:~/Maildir; rerun to do i
Dear Marc,
Thanks for pointing this small but very important detail - it simplifies
the process so much!
Tamas
On 01/29/2019 09:22 PM, Tamas Hegedus wrote:
W/o downtime: see the wiki page below, the "Converting" section.
Briefly for my case something like this should work and generally seems
Hi,
Tamas Hegedus, 29.01.19:
* Configuration uses mail_location = mbox:~/mails
* setup per-user mail location and do for each user individually in a
serial manner:
-- doveadm sync maildir:~/Maildir; mbox is synced to Maildir, long
running time
-- doveadm sync maildir:~/Maildir; rerun to do it
W/o downtime: see the wiki page below, the "Converting" section.
Briefly for my case something like this should work and generally seems
simple (no syntax checking yet, pseudo-code like):
* Configuration uses mail_location = mbox:~/mails
* setup per-user mail location and do for each user indiv
I am also migration away from mbox to in my case mdbox. I am not fully
aware of something that allows you to do this without downtime.
To try to do as much as possible online, I have created an archive
namespace and am moving the larger >5GB mbox files with old emails to
that. So when the tim
