On 28.11.2012 18:10, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:12:15 +0100, Bjørn T Johansen said:
I am planning to shut down my own Dovecot server and start using the
other Dovecot server I am administering together with a friend..
And I was thinking that I don't want to copy the emails I have on my
server so I want to start from scratch on the other server.. But I
would like to be able to look at the old emails if I need to, so was
wondering if there is a way to do this without using an imap server?
Can I convert my mails stored in the maildir format to mbox or is
there a better way to solve my problem?
I'm not sure why you want to convert to mbox, especially when there
are
multiple mbox versions.
I'm also not sure why you don't want to copy emails. How else would
they appear on the new server. I suppose you could use rsync to copy
the data itself.
You use Claws-Mail. If I were in your shoes, I'd bring up the empty
Dovecot server and make a new Claws-Mail account for that empty
server.
Then in Claws-Mail I'd use the copy feature to copy whole folder
trees
to the new server. Once that's done, I'd reconfigure your original
Dovecot so it can serve only on its local machine, and bang, you have
your new server, with old emails you can look at.
This is similar to the procedure I used to move my Kmail folders
(over
100K messages) to Dovecot.
http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm
HTH,
SteveT
Well, I could do that... But you see, there is not much of the emails I
have at the moment that I really need, I might need one now and then...
So that is why I don't want to copy almost 10GB of email to the new
server...
But I guess that might be the most practical solution perhaps...
Doesn't seem to be a better solution....
BTJ
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