migrating from courier to dovecot imap

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On May 1, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:

>> 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.

I do think this is the route I will take.

One more dovecot question: does it handle non-ASCII characters in  
folder names? Courier seems to have issues. For example, I work for a  
company called Ramböll, and would like to keep mail in folders with  
that name. Same with people names. Courier seems to not like that. At  
least it was all I could identify as the common denominator with this  
problem. Anyone know if dovecot does a better job? I can't imagine it  
is a general imap issue. Of course, one never knows.

--
Roger Oberholtzer

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And remember:

It is RSofT and there is always something under construction.
It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished.
Not impossible, but very unlikely.