dovecot - Jul 2014 - Maildir migration - using separate INDEX and CONTROL directories?

Hi all,

I'm working on a migration from Courier to Dovecot, and the 
courier-dovecot-migrate.pl seems to work ok, but it puts all the 
metadata files (dovecot-uidlist etc) in the Maildir, while I want to put 
them in the appropriate places as specified:

mail_location = 
maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/mail/meta/index/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%n:CONTROL=/var/mail/meta/control/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%n

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/FS explains why some of these files need 
to go in different places (which is why I'm doing it), but I haven't 
seen a complete list of what files will be moved as a result of those 
directives.

Is there a handy tool to move the files to the right places? Or is there 
a complete list of what files need to go where?

Thanks,
Richard

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On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Richard Hector wrote:
> I'm working on a migration from Courier to Dovecot, and the 
> courier-dovecot-migrate.pl seems to work ok, but it puts all the metadata 
> files (dovecot-uidlist etc) in the Maildir, while I want to put them in the
> appropriate places as specified:
>
> mail_location = 
>
maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/mail/meta/index/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%n:CONTROL=/var/mail/meta/control/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%n
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/FS explains why some of these files need to
go
> in different places (which is why I'm doing it), but I haven't seen
a
> complete list of what files will be moved as a result of those directives.
>
> Is there a handy tool to move the files to the right places? Or is there a 
> complete list of what files need to go where?
IMHO: move all dovecot* files the migration script generates and the 
"subscriptions" file into the control directories, some INBOX-related 
files probably go to <control base>/.INBOX, dovecot-keywords and 
dovecot-uidlist - maybe more. The migration scripts I saw til today never 
create any indexes, so the assumption should be fine. And test it with one 
account, move some messages around, add some subscriptions and ACLs, ...

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Richard Hector wrote:
> I'm working on a migration from Courier to Dovecot, and the 
> courier-dovecot-migrate.pl seems to work ok, but it puts all the metadata 
> files (dovecot-uidlist etc) in the Maildir, while I want to put them in the
> appropriate places as specified:
>
> mail_location = 
>
maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/mail/meta/index/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%n:CONTROL=/var/mail/meta/control/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%n
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/FS explains why some of these files need to
go
> in different places (which is why I'm doing it), but I haven't seen
a
> complete list of what files will be moved as a result of those directives.
>
> Is there a handy tool to move the files to the right places? Or is there a 
> complete list of what files need to go where?
IMHO: move all dovecot* files the migration script generates and the 
"subscriptions" file into the control directories, some INBOX-related 
files probably go to <control base>/.INBOX, dovecot-keywords and 
dovecot-uidlist - maybe more. The migration scripts I saw til today never 
create any indexes, so the assumption should be fine. And test it with one 
account, move some messages around, add some subscriptions and ACLs, ...

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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On 24/07/14 18:18, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Richard Hector wrote:
>
>> Is there a handy tool to move the files to the right places? Or is
>> there a complete list of what files need to go where?
>
> IMHO: move all dovecot* files the migration script generates and the
> "subscriptions" file into the control directories, some
INBOX-related
> files probably go to <control base>/.INBOX, dovecot-keywords and
> dovecot-uidlist - maybe more. The migration scripts I saw til today
> never create any indexes, so the assumption should be fine. And test it
> with one account, move some messages around, add some subscriptions and
> ACLs, ...
Thanks - seems straightforward enough.

Richard