On Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:28 AM CDT, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > On 2010-09-11 3:14 AM, Donny Brooks <dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote: > > Currently our mail server is setup to use postfix and dovecot, > > Version of DC? >
On the old mail server it is: dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 On the new mail server we are migrating to it is: dovecot-1.2.14-1.fc13.x86_64 currently Is there a repo out there that I can install 2.0 from? The only one I have found is atrpms and it is a pain to get conflict worked out with other packages. > > 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. > > Dovecot 2.0 would use dsync, and it should be really easy and avoids > most problems the other methods can have (haven't used it yet myself, > but will on a system I'll be upgrading soon)... > > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat > > But either way, to avoid doing each one manually you'll need to use some > scripting magic. If I were doing it, I'd probably write a script (or > more likely hire someone to do it for me, since my scripting skills are > rudimentary at best) that would run at the least busy time of day for > your system, and iterate through the user: > > disable login > kill any existing processes for that user > run dsync to convert everything > re-enable login > rinse, repeat. > > > I also tried the convert plugin located here: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert but it kept erroring about > > not able to convert the box and exiting. > > Did you ask here about the errors? Timo could probably address any > problems your having very quickly. > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles Most likely I will need to stick for now to the 1.x branch and just use the convert plugin. I will dig for the error again and see what it was. I will send a new message with the details on that. Thanks for the input. -- Donny B.