[Dovecot] Is it possible to migrating mail to dovecot using imapc?

Dr Josef Karthauser joe at tao.org.uk
Fri Mar 30 22:55:27 EEST 2012


On 30 Mar 2012, at 20:52, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 30.3.2012, at 22.44, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
>> I'm excited to hear that dovecot now supports imap as a mailbox type.
>> 
>> I've got a mailbox over on another imap server, which I want to migrate to dovecot. I was wondering whether I could use 'doveadm backup' to setup a two way synchronisation process between the old imap mailbox and the new dovecot mailbox. That way I can do the migration, and can coordinate the mail clients changing where they pick up their email from later.
>> 
>> But, I can't find much documentation on imapc, other than it exists.
>> 
>> Is this kind of move possible now? Would someone mind giving me some hints as to how to make it work please?
> 
> One-way sync will work fine. Two-way sync might be a bit troublesome. For redesigned dsync I've started thinking about kind of a 1,5-way sync. :) That would make sure that all messages from A are copied to B and no messages are deleted from B, but doesn't try to copy new messages from B to A.
> 
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync anyway has some docs.
> 

But, 'dsync mirror' does a two way sync, doesn't it? Can't I just do that with imapc as the source mailbox?

Joe




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