dovecot - Jun 2011 - Migrating shared folders from courier-imap to dovecot

Hi,

I'm hoping you'll be able to help. I'm working on a project to
migrate our
users from a courier-imap (4.3.0) based mail server to a dovecot (2.0.8)
mail server.

I have got all the users migrated and working. However, I can't see how to
migrate the shared folders from courier-imap. I have tried to find extra
information all the migration information seems to centre around a user
mailbox rather than shared mailboxes.

Is it simply a case of setting up the shared folders on dovecot, then
copying the messages in, finally running the dovecot migration script across
them?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:45 +0100, Tom Clark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm hoping you'll be able to help. I'm working on a project to
migrate our
> users from a courier-imap (4.3.0) based mail server to a dovecot (2.0.8)
> mail server.
> 
> I have got all the users migrated and working. However, I can't see how
to
> migrate the shared folders from courier-imap. I have tried to find extra
> information all the migration information seems to centre around a user
> mailbox rather than shared mailboxes.
> 
> Is it simply a case of setting up the shared folders on dovecot, then
> copying the messages in, finally running the dovecot migration script
across
> them?
Did you want per-user flags with shared folders? IIRC Courier used some
weird symlink directory for that, which won't work with Dovecot.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes lists all the ways you can
currently do shared folders with Dovecot.