migrating from courier to dovecot imap
Kurt Wall
kwall at kurtwerks.com
Fri May 1 05:36:40 PDT 2009
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:46:50PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
>
[Courier to Dovecot]
> 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?
No, only mbox to maildir. However, if it were me, I'd just make a new
maildir for dovecot and migrate the old messages. Seems simpler and
has fewer moving parts to break.
My 2 cents.
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