Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-15 Thread Donny Brooks
This actually looks like the way I will look into doing it. That way I can migrate the ones that have close to 8GB of mail on a weekend and the rest that are typical with a few hundred MB any old time. Now just to figure out the proper syntax for ldap. ;) -- Donny B. On Tuesday,

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-14 Thread Donny Brooks
I think I will have to stay with the 1.x branch since we have to stick to using approved rpm's (internal policy) and fedora 13 does not have a 2.x branch that I see yet. So maildir it is for now. I see my error on the inbox not getting the new mail. That was one of those all nighter errors

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-14 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-14 11:51 AM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: So once I setup postfix to deliver the mail properly and the dovecot convert plugin is setup, is there a way to gradually migrate the users so I don't kill the server? We have about 220GB or so of mail between about 160+/-

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-14 Thread William Blunn
On 14/09/2010 16:51, Donny Brooks wrote: I think I will have to stay with the 1.x branch since we have to stick to using approved rpm's (internal policy) and fedora 13 does not have a 2.x branch that I see yet. I agree sticking to the standard binary packages where possible is generally a

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-14 Thread Egbert Jan van den Bussche
Op 14-9-2010 17:51, Donny Brooks schreef: I think I will have to stay with the 1.x branch since we have to stick to using approved rpm's (internal policy) and fedora 13 does not have a 2.x branch that I see yet. So maildir it is for now. I see my error on the inbox not getting the new mail.

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-12 Thread William Blunn
On 11/09/2010 20:17, Donny Brooks wrote: On the old mail server it is: dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 On the new mail server we are migrating to it is: dovecot-1.2.14-1.fc13.x86_64 currently Is there a repo out there that I can install 2.0 from? The only one I have found is atrpms and it is a

[Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-11 Thread Donny Brooks
Hello, Currently our mail server is setup to use postfix and dovecot, which is fine except it is setup to use mbox format mail. That and procmail as we need to move to sieve but that is a different issue. I have searched until blue in the face and cannot find a 100% working solution that

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-11 Thread Donny Brooks
On Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:28 AM CDT, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2010-09-11 3:14 AM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Currently our mail server is setup to use postfix and dovecot, Version of DC? On the old mail server it is:

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Donny Brooks put forth on 9/11/2010 2:14 AM: We need this done asap as our backups are killing us with the large mbox style files. Does your backup software not offer data deduplication? I was under the impression that all commercial backup software offered this feature in modern times. In