dovecot - Feb 2006 - Old Maildir UW-imap

Hi all,
I'm new in using dovecot and I'm running in a problem, which I cannot
solve without hours and hours of work. Maybe there is a solution, which
I didn't find with old friend google :_)
Here is the problem: We are using an old mailserver (it's running fine
for 5 years) with qmail and the old uw-imap server. All users have their
grown directories under a home/Maildir folder. All subdirectories are
lying under Maildir/sub/sub/sub. Now I want to migrate to dovecot and I
have a lot of trouble, cause I cannot find a solution to migrate to the
folder structure /Maildir/.sub.sub.sub. It's really difficult cause all
the windows users have subdirs like one folder (1945)/a new ?/    and
something like that!
Any hints??

greetings and sorry for the bad english

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On Friday 24 February 2006 11:05, Torbj?rn Gripp wrote:
> I'm new in using dovecot and I'm running in a problem, which I
cannot
> solve without hours and hours of work. Maybe there is a solution, which
> I didn't find with old friend google :_)
> Here is the problem: We are using an old mailserver (it's running fine
> for 5 years) with qmail and the old uw-imap server. All users have their
> grown directories under a home/Maildir folder. All subdirectories are
> lying under Maildir/sub/sub/sub. Now I want to migrate to dovecot and I
> have a lot of trouble, cause I cannot find a solution to migrate to the
> folder structure /Maildir/.sub.sub.sub. It's really difficult cause all
> the windows users have subdirs like one folder (1945)/a new ?/    and
> something like that!
> Any hints??
Something like this?

# set up a test bunch of nested maildirs:
mkdir -p Maildir/{a,b,c,d,}/{a,b,c,d,}/{a,b,c,d,}/{cur,new}

# Move them all:
c=20; while [ $c -gt 0 ]; do for i in `find . -type d -not -name cur -not 
-name new -mindepth $c -not -name '.*'`; do j=`echo $i | sed -e
's:^\./::' |
sed -e 's:/:.:g'`; mv -v "$i" ".$j"; done; c=`expr
$c - 1`; done
`./a/a/a' -> `.a.a.a'
`./a/a/b' -> `.a.a.b'
`./a/a/c' -> `.a.a.c'
`./a/a/d' -> `.a.a.d'
[...]
`./d/c' -> `.d.c'
`./d/d' -> `.d.d'
`./a' -> `.a'
`./b' -> `.b'
`./c' -> `.c'
`./d' -> `.d'

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