[Dovecot] OT: best way to move maildirs to another host ?

[Brice Figureau]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:17 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:00:42AM +0100, Andrew Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 18 August 2006 09:27, Brice Figureau wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Next, from what I remember about maildir, the message names usually 
> > > contain the inode so that the file name is unique. If I strictly
> > > move the files, I can be sure that the moved files won't have the
> > > same inodes number as what is in the name.
> > > Should I care ?
> > > ...
> > 
> > No.
> > [snipped]
> > When you move your messages, the timestamp will be 
> > 'in the past' for the new server, so even if you were to duplicate an 
> > inode number, the timestamp would still ensure uniqueness.
> 
> And the hostname would be different. :-)  

In fact no, since the new server will replace the old one, they do have
the same hostname. But since the timestamps ensure uniqueness, I'm
fine ;-)

Thank you for your answers,
-- 
Brice Figureau <brice+dovecot at daysofwonder.com>