On 26.1.2012, at 14.03, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2012-01-25 8:40 PM, Jean-Daniel Beaubien <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd just like to confirm that there is no risk to the actual mail data is >> ever something is badly configured when I start dovecot 2.1. I am managing >> this old server on my spare time for a friend, so I don't want to loose >> 2million+ emails and have to deal with those consequences:) > > There are *always* risks associated with things like this... maybe the > chance is low, but no guarantees...
Risks of some trouble, yes .. but you have to be highly creative if you want to accidentally lose any mails. I can't think of any way to do that without explicitly deleting files from filesystem or via IMAP/POP3 client.
