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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