On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > Why not just let them hit the courier imap pop daemon with an
> (intially)
> empty directory set. Then as you transfer the mail into there they
> will
> see the replicated content appear. This can be done without message
> corruption dangers because of the Maildir lock-free operation mode.
I agree. I did a simlar migration to the above earlier this week -- I
created a new root for courier to look/ exim to store messages, and
just copied mail files into them.
You'd only have locking/access issues if you were doing Maildir->mbox ,
not the other way around.