on 2-10-2009 9:18 AM Harry Lachanas spake the following: > Luciano Mannucci wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a postfix+procmail+dovecot installation, now running basicaly >> on pop3 hence mailbox format, with few thousand users and less than >> twenty gigabytes mail. >> I need to move all of them to maildir, to take advantage of IMAP >> subfolders that do not work with mbox format (so I'm told :). >> Of course I cannot safely stop the service for more than a bunch of >> seconds... >> >> What I'm about to do: >> > I warn you that I am very new to this ... > > But have a look at the Convert plugin .... > > I Think it can answer some of your questions . > If your users are now on pop3, this should work well, but the convert plugin doesn't preserve message uid's so all clients will re-download all the mail that is on the server. IMAP will just re-index, but pop3 will actually re-download all the messages again.
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