Hi, I think you tried to read cyrus mails folders directly. I was talking about fething mails from cyrus over imapc connection.
Sami > On 26 Nov 2015, at 15:36, FUSTE Emmanuel <emmanuel.fu...@thalesgroup.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > Because it did not work ? > In a similar situation, we where forced to use isync/mbsync in imap to > imap mode because dsync did not work. > It was reported here more than a year ago (May 2014). > Time to time, I see the same report from other trying to use dsync to do > a migration to dovecot. > Dsync is a very appealing and elegant solution to this usage, but it > does not always work in real world. > > Regards, > Emmanuel > > Le 26/11/2015 12:30, Sami Ketola a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> With imapsync you will lose message UIDs which means that IMAP clients need >> to clear their local caches and redownload all messages. Why not use dovecot >> dsync over imapc instead? It tries to preserve UIDs and Flags. >> >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration >> >> Sami >> >> >>> On 07 Nov 2015, at 23:35, Forrest <those.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thank you for the reply. I did find imapsync whilst perusing Google. I >>> will give it a shot, it sounds more realistic/reliable. I have a hoard of >>> emails going back to 1999, so I want as few errors as possible :) >>> >>> >>> >>> On 11/7/15 3:31 PM, Philon wrote: >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> I was in the same position, but for mutliple accounts. Still you might >>>> want to look at imapsync (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync), isync and >>>> offlineimap. There are more alternatives listed at the imapsync homepage. >>>> >>>> >>>> Philon >>>> >>>> >>>>> Am 04.11.2015 um 20:47 schrieb Forrest <those.li...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>> I have been attempting to use the cyrus2dovecot script, to no avail. >>>>> >>>>> I have many years of content that I want to convert from Cyrus to >>>>> Dovecot; with the above not working, what are other options out there? >>>>> Another idea I had is simply set up another IMAP server (using Dovecot) >>>>> and drag-and-drop and just wait, which I may end up doing. >>>>> >>>>> In the above, I copied over my entire /var/imap and /var/spool/imap to >>>>> another system; there is only one account (mine), so calling the script >>>>> was fairly easy; it just doesn't work. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> inboxes=the "myaccount" that was copied over >>>>> >>>>> /home/myaccount/cyrus2dovecot --cyrus-inbox /home/myaccount/inboxes/%u >>>>> \ >>>>> --cyrus-seen /home/myaccount/varimap/user/%h/%u.seen \ >>>>> --cyrus-sub /home/varimap/user/%h/%u.sub \ >>>>> --dovecot-inbox /home/myaccount/dovecot/Maildir \ >>>>> myaccount >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> the log output complains of: >>>>> >>>>> cyrus2dovecot [myaccount]: (warning) Index record missing for: >>>>> INBOX/62020. >>>>> >>>>> and correctly complains about squat indices, as that's not a file it >>>>> would handle. There is no output into the Maildir, however. >>>>> >>>>> All directory paths are correct. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks.
