dovecot - Aug 2012 - maildir to sdbox offline conversion

Hi all. I've just installed dovecot v2.1 in a multihomed, multiinstance
setup, It took me two days to convert the old v1.1 configs, now everything
works like charm! But. :)

I have several maildir mailboxes, I decided to use the sdbox storage type
instead. 

I ran into difficoulties using the dsync util. 

My virtual users are in an OpenLDAP DB on a differnet machine, and I do not
have access to the database (I can authenticate the users from ldap, but
cannot change or see anything)

So it's not easy to do an "online" conversion and follow the
instructions at
dsync's wiki. Do you know a way how to simply tell dsync or a similar util
the following

dsync convert maildir:/data/vmail/domain/user
sdbox:/newdata/vmail/domain/user

without touching the ldap database, only the files on the disk. I can run
this command as root on this mail server, if it is needed, I can run the
command for each and every maildir. That's not a problem.

any ideas, how this woul?d be the simpliest?
-- 
View this message in context:
http://old.nabble.com/maildir-to-sdbox-offline-conversion-tp34274589p34274589.html
Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

On 9.8.2012, at 3.34, _ET_ wrote:
> So it's not easy to do an "online" conversion and follow the
instructions at
> dsync's wiki. Do you know a way how to simply tell dsync or a similar
util
> the following
> 
> dsync convert maildir:/data/vmail/domain/user
> sdbox:/newdata/vmail/domain/user
> 
> without touching the ldap database, only the files on the disk. I can run
> this command as root on this mail server, if it is needed, I can run the
> command for each and every maildir. That's not a problem.
> 
> any ideas, how this woul?d be the simpliest?
doveadm -o mail=maildir:/data/... sync sdbox:/newdata/...