On 11/4/2011 8:44 PM, Noah wrote:
Hi there,
I have problems with a lot of memory needed for indexing my mbox by
dovecot and wondering if I transitioned from mbox to Maildir if that
would help with the indexing processing? If so is there a good
tutorial for moving postfix from mbox to Maildir?
Cheers,
Noah
Noah,
I used a program called imapsync. So far it has moved complete IMAP
folder structures and emails from mbox to Maildir. Flags
(read/unread/etc) were kept. It has done a really good job with very few
errors. Mostly, clients who created folders that aren't acceptable
between my Sendmail mbox systems and my Postfix Maildir systems.
Speed increase has been revolutionary! Same with the reduction in server
loads. Also makes feasible rsync backups of users' emails.
There are a number of packagers providing imapsync for major Linux
flavors. It is a command line operation... basically calling the script
and feeding host1, user1, password1 to host2,user2, password2. It then
outputs results as they happen and gives a report at the end with total
errors reported.
If you are going to make the transition on the live single system, I'm
not sure imapsync can do it. There are other scripts for that. Google is
your friend.
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