Hello, I am trying to setup a migration scenario from an proprietary solution to dovecot IMAP/POP3. Whereas am only at the strating point, things appear quite complicated because of the following reasons: - The proprietary solution uses special/own/proprietary mailbox format (wich is more like maildir but is not maildir) - I don't have direct access to the filesystem where the mails are stored. The best I could do would be a snapshots of the filesystem - I have about 1,5TB of mail data. - Having users to be forced to empty their mailbox before migration or re-download their whole mailbox after migration would be something hard for me to present as a correct option. Am looking for advices that would avoid me loosing time searching in bad directions. Or even point me to a miraculous tool thatdoes all magic while i have a beer :) Best regards. -- horoa: la voie est libre -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 490 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20110330/35911a57/attachment-0002.bin>
Does the proprietary solution allow IMAP access? If so, I would use imapsync. http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ Jim On 3/29/11 18:26 , Alexandre Chapellon wrote:> Hello, > > I am trying to setup a migration scenario from an proprietary solution > to dovecot IMAP/POP3. > Whereas am only at the strating point, things appear quite complicated > because of the following reasons: > > - The proprietary solution uses special/own/proprietary mailbox format > (wich is more like maildir but is not maildir) > - I don't have direct access to the filesystem where the mails are > stored. The best I could do would be a snapshots of the filesystem > - I have about 1,5TB of mail data. > - Having users to be forced to empty their mailbox before migration or > re-download their whole mailbox after migration would be something hard > for me to present as a correct option. > > Am looking for advices that would avoid me loosing time searching in bad > directions. Or even point me to a miraculous tool thatdoes all magic > while i have a beer :) > > Best regards. >