Hi,
S'ok I've sorted it. I've temporarily installed Dovecot and just got it to
run up its POP3 server and look to the mbox's that Exim has set up in
/var/mail. Works like a dream.
Apologies if this isn't quite an exim question, but I put it here just in
case there was a solution within exim itself. Besides, I'm sure it'll come
up again with someone else at some point.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-bounces@??? [
mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On
Behalf Of Steven Wayne
Sent: 16 February 2007 12:47
To: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] Concurrent use of mbox and maildir formats
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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