On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:31:30PM -0000, Mike Jones wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm in the process of switching over from ipop3d to courier-imap, and as
> part of that, switching my users from mbox to maildir.
>
> This is quite a big job, and isn't practical to do in one evening, so I need
> to migrate the users over several days, while still allowing them to get
> access to their emails.
>
> I've set up a test server with exim and courier-imap, and I'm in the process
> of trying this out, prior to doing it on the live server.
>
> I've managed to set up the necessary routers in the exim config, and I can
> have some test user accounts using their existing mbox files, while others
> are using the new maildir files.
>
> However the problem comes when retrieving mail. As courier-imap (i assume)
> cannot look at mbox files, any of my test accounts still using mbox files,
> cannot retrieve their emails, while the ones using the new maildir files
> can.
>
> One obvious solution would be to run a pop3 server than can read mbox files,
> concurrently with courier-imaps pop3 server and have them listening on
> different ports - then setting the mail clients to the appropriate port for
> POP3.
>
> Has anyone else had to do this this kind of migration ? Anyone have any
> suggestions ? I've tried to install ipop3d, but it won't install with
> courier-imap (conflicting files).
>
> Mike
Could you use mb2md to convert mbox files to maildir?
Steven.
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