Am 21.09.2017 um 20:34 schrieb Stroller: > I apologise, because I'm sure this subject has been done to death, but I want > to migrate from Courier to Dovecot. > > I think my main question is whether there's any reason I shouldn't just rsync > the maildirs across from the old mail server to the new one?
I think it will work, but if maildir is the best solution for you ,study dovecot wiki, be sure configure dovecot right using maildir > > There aren't many clients using this server, so I don't care if clients have > to redownload all their messages (in fact, I expect they'll probably end up > doing so anyway). > > I'd like to preserve read/unread status of each message, but can't think of > anything else important. > > It doesn't matter if there's a few hours of downtime, but I thought to use > rsync because I figured I copy the maildirs a day or two ahead of time, and > then a sync immediately before going live will be quicker. > > Using imapsync [1] looks pretty good, and I'm happy to use that if it'll be > "cleaner" or help Dovecot to create its hierarchy more neatly. > > It looks like Courier creates a courierimapuiddb, courierimapkeywords and > courierimapacl in each folder - can I not just delete these, and hand Dovecot > a bunch of maildir directories and files to reindex for itself? dovecot will index and acl by itself > > There are probably only a few hundred thousand messages on the server, a few > GB worth, although some of them are many years old. > > Some of the messages on the old server have the wrong "received" date on > them, having the wrong file creation / modification date on the server's > filesystem, having been copied there previously (years ago) without using > cp's --archive flag. I've always thought I should one day write a script to > fix this, perhaps using mboxgrep. > > Thanks in advance for any of your thoughts, > > Stroller. > > i did maildir rsync migration from dovecot to dovecot many times, no problem, never tested from Courier, but its easy to test before production ,so simply try out, if something dont work go imapsync way which is easy too > > > > [1] https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration#IMAP_.3C-.3E_IMAP_copying > Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG, 80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
