On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:04 +0100, Peter Lindgren wrote: > Hello! > I am moving my mail from the old server with 1.0.rc29 to a brand new > server with 1.1.7. I use Maildir in both servers. A few questions: > > 1) The new server has another name, can I just copy the mail files > as-is, will the server name in the file names matter?
Just copy them. > 2) The new server has a different architecture and different endian, so > I plan not to copy the index and cache files; they seem to have become > broken from time to time in the old server anyway. Dovecot will also > re-create them when needed. Ok? Right. > 3) 1.0.rc29 did not store the message size in the file name as later > versions. When will Dovecot do the check and rename the files to include > the message size? There are some folders with quite large number of > messages, the largest is some 45,000 messages. It doesn't rename anything and it also doesn't require sizes in the file names. So your upgrade should go just fine.
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