Re: [Dovecot] migrating/converting from system users -> virtual users

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 8.3.2012, at 20.46, Steve Platt wrote: >> use Dovecot v2.0's dsync > > I gather from your reply that it's OK to use Dovecot 2.0 utilities (eg dsync) > on a dovecot (v1) installation; presumably with its own configuration file(s). Yes, although in some situations it might write stuff to index

Re: [Dovecot] migrating/converting from system users -> virtual users

2012-03-08 Thread Steve Platt
Thank you for your help, Timo. > use Dovecot v2.0's dsync I gather from your reply that it's OK to use Dovecot 2.0 utilities (eg dsync) on a dovecot (v1) installation; presumably with its own configuration file(s). > You could set mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes ... chgrp vmail ... Yes, I thin

Re: [Dovecot] migrating/converting from system users -> virtual users

2012-03-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.2.2012, at 19.45, Steve Platt wrote: > Most of this is working but I'm stuck on how to convert users' mail folders > from the existing setup to the new one. I'm using the convert plugin but of > course the problem is that the plugin executes as the "vmail" user and cannot > access the exi

[Dovecot] migrating/converting from system users -> virtual users

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Platt
Hello all, We currently have a traditional mail server where all users have system accounts (ie entries in the NIS passwd map) and mbox-format mail folders in their (system) home directories. I'm trying to setup a dovecot server in which we want all users to have "virtual" accounts (in dovec