similar to: mbox to maildir migration question and problems, dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5

I am running dovecot 0.99. Everything works great; however, now I am looking at several different tools to convert mbox to Maildir. It seems the tools, mb2md.pl, perfect_maildir.pl, and others all do what they claim; however, when the messages are converted and they are stored in Maildir/cur, the email clients download these messages as new. This typically wouldn't be a problem;

Hello, I'm upgrading my mail server from UW to Dovecot and I'd like to convert from mbox to maildir. I've successfully convert myself and a few other users with the mb2md script. All is well. My question is, I have somewhere around 500 users and about 122gb of mail folders to convert (this does not include the inbox at /var/mail). mb2md needs to be run as each user to convert.

Hello, I have used mb2md for an individual user like this: su ~username cd ~ ./mb2md -m This converted /var/spool/mail/username mbox to /home/users/username/Maildir just as I expected. To convert 100s of users the same way would be a chore (su as each user for permissions, etc.). Is there a way to batch process all /var/spool/mail/$USER to /home/users/$USER/Maildir with the correct

Hi, Let me start with wishing you all the best for this new year, and I hope we'll see a lot of new features and not so much new bugs ;-) I'm trying to convert a number of PSTs to maildir. Just plain drag&drop in Outlook doesn't work (gives a very cryptic error message in a certain folder, but that folder is perfectly all right), and using the import option also barfs when

I have Julian Fitzell's migrateuser.sh script which uses mb2md-3.20.pl to convert a mailbox in mbox format to Maildir. I have set up a test user called "mailtest" which has mail as follows: /var/mail/mailtest /home/mailtest/mail/ Drafts MoreStuff Sent Items Stuff After the conversion I want all this user's mail to be in /home/mailtest/Maildir/

TESTED AND RUNNING, MIGRATING from MBOX to MAILDIR, PRESERVE UID and OUTLOOK sees the email as downloaded. I hope this helps a lot of people out there. Feel free to post this somewhere else too. By: Horn Wijaya (hwijaya at nodens.biz) 8th May 2008 I have been searching for weeks for a foolproof method to migrate all my users mbox to maildir/dovecot without having the pain of downloading

Hi, I am running dovecot 0.99-14 on a Fedora Core 2 machine. I had a few questions: 1) I wanted to upgrade to the dovecot-1.0 release. However, I am not sure if that's really required. dovecot-0.99-14 has been running very well for me for quite some time. Is there a real advantage to switching to the latest release. The reason I'm asking this is because: i) I don't have too

Okay, been working with tripack, seems the most mature package for this. Got it to work well with their test data set - data(tritest). When i tried random numbers to explore further, i am getting some results that don't reconcile. example run this: library(tripack) y <- runif(100) x <- runif(100) vm <- voronoi.mosaic(x,y) plot(vm) par(new=T) plot(x,y,col='blue') when

Hello, I am in the process of migrating a hosting setup from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. The protocols available to mail clients are IMAP and POP3 both before and after migration. I also wanted to change the mail storage format from MBOX to Maildir. However, at this point I hit a major snag with Dovecot and POP3 UIDL (unique identification listing for POP3 mailboxes). Several of the customers connecting

Hi, I'm testing/debuging the migration from mbox to maildir in a mailserver running Dovecot 1.0alpha5. I migrated all 472715 emails(in a test server) and later noted that dovecot could not get the same flags/status of the emails as in the mbox. I was using perfect_maildir.pl and I think its not dovecot fault. Seems to me that perfect_maildir.pl convert the emails in a way that dovecot could

Hello, I'm try to use the convert plugin, but I cannot seem to get it working properly. Is there any setting that I'm missing. -------- dovecot -n # 1.0.10: dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): 127.0.0.1:143 listen(imap): 127.0.0.1:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995

Hello all I?ve installed a new Server with dovecot, started using it and had no problems until I noticed that I couldn?t create sub-sub-folders on my imap account, I?ve read for the past two days info on how to convert and I know now that instead of using mbox I need to user maildir, the issue is now to convert mbox to maildir, on the various searches I did, I found the convert wiki page

Can anyone help with the following problem I am having on AIX 4.1.5. First I compile the code and all compiles with out error or warning then I begin to execute smbstatus, of course I have my smb.conf file. I get an error regarding "Can't read /var/locks/STATUS..LCK". After which I touch that file and then I run smbstatus again and I get the following error: # smbstatus doing

Thinking about going from mbox to maildir. Started with mbox way back when but thinking about making the conversion. The main reason is that I use rsync for backups and when these huge mailboxes are touched I have to copy the whole thing. With maildir I only copy the files that change. So - my questions is - what's the easiest way to make this happan. I assume there are conversion

Hello! Can anybody advise me nice and well-tested script for converting mbox to maildir format that saves all message flags ?

Timo writes: > BTW. Nowadays Dovecot includes its own conversion tool also, which might > work better than mb2md. Usage is something like: > > src/plugin/convert-tool user /home/user mbox:/home/user/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u maildir:/home/user/Maildir I would RTFM but searching wiki.dovecot.org turns up nothing. Give me more hints and I will add a new wiki page. The feedback the

I need mailutil in order to use the mbox to maildir translation routines that are posted in the Dovecot wiki, but there is no mailutil with the AIX image... mailutil is apparently built as part of Pine, and indeed I can see it in the build tree from my V4.6.1 Pine build, which I still have....OTOH, my version of Pine is not patched for maildir. Will the native pine mailutil work with mb2md or

Need Help with this one ASAP! When I issue smbstatus I get the following error: doing parameter max log size = 50 Processing section "[mytest]" doing parameter browseable = yes doing parameter read only = no doing parameter path = / Processing section "[homes]" doing parameter browseable = yes doing parameter guest ok = no doing parameter read only = no doing parameter create

Hello, Currently our mail server is setup to use postfix and dovecot, which is fine except it is setup to use mbox format mail. That and procmail as we need to move to sieve but that is a different issue. I have searched until blue in the face and cannot find a 100% working solution that doesn't require alot of manual interaction to move the mail boxes from mbox to maildir. I have

Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on Ubuntu? Thanks.