dovecot - Apr 2005 - Migrating from courier-imap to dovecot

Hello Gang,

I am new to dovecot and the only reason (so far) I would like to use
dovecot, and in production with 12k+ users, is the fact that it's
supposed to be faster and less of a resource hog.

Now, sometimes I am really good at reading the documentations but it
sometimes happens that one overlooks something. I did read the migration
notes three times!

My users are in /etc/passwd and I am running dovecot in IMAP only
mode.

I did put default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir in dovecot.conf, then
for one user, I did the following:

cd ~wash/Maildir
cp courierimapsubscribed .subscriptions # Then I edited to remove
"INBOX."
cp courierimapuiddb dovecot-uidlist

The permissions are right, but when I login as this user, I don't see
all the folders that had been there before when he was using
courier-imap!!

When I login to the web interface (we use Squirrelmail) and go to the
Folder options, I can't see any folders to subscribe to either!

Now my questions:

1. What am I overlooking??
2. Does someone have a script that can be used to automate the copying
   of courierimapsubscribed to .subscriptions and that of
   courierimapuiddb to dovecot-uidlist, and the editing to remove the
   "INBOX."?
   I am sure I really don't have to reinvent the wheel, no?

Meanwhile I am hitting google, while waiting for your answers.


Thanks in advance.


-Wash

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Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello Gang,
> 
> I am new to dovecot and the only reason (so far) I would like to use
> dovecot, and in production with 12k+ users, is the fact that it's
> supposed to be faster and less of a resource hog.
> 
I see people posting that a lot... especially migrating from UW-IMAP.
> The permissions are right, but when I login as this user, I don't see
> all the folders that had been there before when he was using
> courier-imap!!
> 
> When I login to the web interface (we use Squirrelmail) and go to the
> Folder options, I can't see any folders to subscribe to either!
One thing I see suggested a lot is to make sure your CLIENTs don't have a
prefix
( such as INBOX) set.  This will, of course, vary depending on your client.

--
Curtis Maloney

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 2. Does someone have a script that can be used to automate the copying
I've used the attached one. However, I tested it on some mailboxes til 
date only, because I'm evaluating Dovecot right now only.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 11:00 +0300, Odhiambo Washington
wrote:
> cd ~wash/Maildir
> cp courierimapsubscribed .subscriptions # Then I edited to remove
"INBOX."
> cp courierimapuiddb dovecot-uidlist
> 
> The permissions are right, but when I login as this user, I don't see
> all the folders that had been there before when he was using
> courier-imap!!
Like Curtis said, this is most likely because the clients have INBOX.
prefix set. If you don't want to have clients change their
configuration, you can create namespaces (which requires 1.0-stable
versions):

http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Namespaces

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