dovecot - Nov 2015 - Problems Converting from Cyrus to Dovecot (cyrus2dovecot)

I have been attempting to use the cyrus2dovecot script, to no avail.

I have many years of content that I want to convert from Cyrus to 
Dovecot; with the above not working, what are other options out there?  
Another idea I had is simply set up another IMAP server (using Dovecot) 
and drag-and-drop and just wait, which I may end up doing.

In the above, I copied over my entire /var/imap and /var/spool/imap to 
another system; there is only one account (mine), so calling the script 
was fairly easy; it just doesn't work.


inboxes=the "myaccount" that was copied over

/home/myaccount/cyrus2dovecot --cyrus-inbox /home/myaccount/inboxes/%u     \
                   --cyrus-seen /home/myaccount/varimap/user/%h/%u.seen    \
                   --cyrus-sub /home/varimap/user/%h/%u.sub      \
                   --dovecot-inbox /home/myaccount/dovecot/Maildir \
                   myaccount



the log output complains of:

     cyrus2dovecot [myaccount]: (warning) Index record missing for: 
INBOX/62020.

and correctly complains about squat indices, as that's not a file it 
would handle.  There is no output into the Maildir, however.

All directory paths are correct.


Thanks.

On Nov 4, 2015 2:48 PM, "Forrest" <those.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I have been attempting to use the cyrus2dovecot script, to no avail.
>
> I have many years of content that I want to convert from Cyrus to
Dovecot; with the above not working, what are other options out there?
Another idea I had is simply set up another IMAP server (using Dovecot) and
drag-and-drop and just wait, which I may end up doing.
>
> In the above, I copied over my entire /var/imap and /var/spool/imap to
another system; there is only one account (mine), so calling the script was
fairly easy; it just doesn't work.
>
>
> inboxes=the "myaccount" that was copied over
>
> /home/myaccount/cyrus2dovecot --cyrus-inbox /home/myaccount/inboxes/%u
 \
>                   --cyrus-seen /home/myaccount/varimap/user/%h/%u.seen
\
>                   --cyrus-sub /home/varimap/user/%h/%u.sub      \
>                   --dovecot-inbox /home/myaccount/dovecot/Maildir \
>                   myaccount
>
>
>
> the log output complains of:
>
>     cyrus2dovecot [myaccount]: (warning) Index record missing for:
INBOX/62020.
>
> and correctly complains about squat indices, as that's not a file it
would handle.  There is no output into the Maildir,
however.
>
> All directory paths are correct.
>
>
> Thanks.
      I've never used cyrrus, so I wonder if what the script does is create
new index and rename the files containing email. Which leads to filename
convention. What I do know is that the times I had issues with indexes, I
just deleted the index file and let Dovecot create a new one.

Hi there,

I was in the same position, but for mutliple accounts. Still you might want to
look at imapsync (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync), isync and offlineimap.
There are more alternatives listed at the imapsync homepage.


Philon

> Am 04.11.2015 um 20:47 schrieb Forrest <those.lists at gmail.com>:
> 
> I have been attempting to use the cyrus2dovecot script, to no avail.
> 
> I have many years of content that I want to convert from Cyrus to Dovecot;
with the above not working, what are other options out there?  Another idea I
had is simply set up another IMAP server (using Dovecot) and drag-and-drop and
just wait, which I may end up doing.
> 
> In the above, I copied over my entire /var/imap and /var/spool/imap to
another system; there is only one account (mine), so calling the script was
fairly easy; it just doesn't work.
> 
> 
> inboxes=the "myaccount" that was copied over
> 
> /home/myaccount/cyrus2dovecot --cyrus-inbox /home/myaccount/inboxes/%u    
\
>                  --cyrus-seen /home/myaccount/varimap/user/%h/%u.seen    \
>                  --cyrus-sub /home/varimap/user/%h/%u.sub      \
>                  --dovecot-inbox /home/myaccount/dovecot/Maildir \
>                  myaccount
> 
> 
> 
> the log output complains of:
> 
>    cyrus2dovecot [myaccount]: (warning) Index record missing for:
INBOX/62020.
> 
> and correctly complains about squat indices, as that's not a file it
would handle.  There is no output into the Maildir, however.
> 
> All directory paths are correct.
> 
> 
> Thanks.

Thank you for the reply.  I did find imapsync whilst perusing Google.  I 
will give it a shot, it sounds more realistic/reliable. I have a hoard 
of emails going back to 1999, so I want as few errors as possible :)



On 11/7/15 3:31 PM, Philon wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I was in the same position, but for mutliple accounts. Still you might want
to look at imapsync (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync), isync and
offlineimap. There are more alternatives listed at the imapsync homepage.
>
>
> Philon
>
>
>> Am 04.11.2015 um 20:47 schrieb Forrest <those.lists at
gmail.com>:
>>
>> I have been attempting to use the cyrus2dovecot script, to no avail.
>>
>> I have many years of content that I want to convert from Cyrus to
Dovecot; with the above not working, what are other options out there?  Another
idea I had is simply set up another IMAP server (using Dovecot) and
drag-and-drop and just wait, which I may end up doing.
>>
>> In the above, I copied over my entire /var/imap and /var/spool/imap to
another system; there is only one account (mine), so calling the script was
fairly easy; it just doesn't work.
>>
>>
>> inboxes=the "myaccount" that was copied over
>>
>> /home/myaccount/cyrus2dovecot --cyrus-inbox /home/myaccount/inboxes/%u 
\
>>                   --cyrus-seen /home/myaccount/varimap/user/%h/%u.seen 
\
>>                   --cyrus-sub /home/varimap/user/%h/%u.sub      \
>>                   --dovecot-inbox /home/myaccount/dovecot/Maildir \
>>                   myaccount
>>
>>
>>
>> the log output complains of:
>>
>>     cyrus2dovecot [myaccount]: (warning) Index record missing for:
INBOX/62020.
>>
>> and correctly complains about squat indices, as that's not a file
it would handle.  There is no output into the Maildir, however.
>>
>> All directory paths are correct.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.