Re: Imap

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

Michael Perry wrote:

> You can also migrate existing mbox folders to maildir if need be by
> installing mb2md which will set everything up in the correct format and
> also parse and relocate existing mbox folders.  I've done this before for
> dovecot with mbox folders with over a year of mail with no problems.  It
> will also create the cur, new, tmp stuff for you.
>
> Dovecot does a nice job of scanning home directories and locating
> supported mailboxes and I've used it with fetchmail, spamassassin,
> postfix, procmail for quite awhile now.

Thanks for sharing this note/tool Michael.

I've been meaning to switch one of my older mail servers over from 
exim/uw-imap/mbox to exim/dovecot/maildir for some time now and always 
been kinda leery of the process.

I guess now I have to sit here and think about how to do this properly 
in the right order, but all the tools are in-hand.

Off to go blow up the mailserver.  Hmm, where's that backup...?  ;-)

Nate