migrating from courier to dovecot imap

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Subject tells my plan. I have a big Maildir directory maintained by  
procmail and various e-mail clients (mainly evolution and whatever the  
Mac e-mail program is called).

Anyone done this? Seems the migration procedure results in new  
databases describing the messages, but the messages are untouched. But  
that is not clear. The biggest thing is the INBOX. root Courier uses  
and, it seems, dovecot can be told to use. But I am not married to the  
INBOX. root idea. I always thought it a bit odd that all mail in a  
tree called INBOX.

Perhaps a better approach would be to make a new Maildir directory  
that is empty and is maintained by dovecot. Then, using a mail agent  
like evolution, simply copy from the Courier account  to the dovecot  
account. That way I don't really change the Courier tree.

Anyone done this specific transition?


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