[Dovecot] convert_mail ?

[Andrew Z]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:27 -0700, Andrew Z wrote:
>   
>> I can't find much documentation on the convert_mail plugin.  For 
>> example, on the wiki plugins page, clicking on convert goes to 
>> <http://wiki.dovecot.org/InterWiki> which is not relevant.
>>
>> Can I use convert_mail to migrate from UW IMAP 2002  mbox format where 
>> some mail is in ~/ and the inboxes are in /var/spool/mail?  Will it know 
>> which files are mbox folders, so it doesn't try to convert other files 
>> in the home directories?
>>     
>
> Looks like it gives an error and stops the conversion completely. But I
> added convert_skip_broken_mailboxes setting now to convert plugin on
> CVS. Latest nightly snapshot also has it.
>
> I wrote the wiki page with answers to your questions:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert
>
>   
>>    Is this configuration snippet valid? 
>>
>> default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir
>> convert_mail = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>>     
>
> Yep.
>
>   
Thank you very much.  After the conversion, are the files in /~ renamed 
or moved?  Is the CVS stable, or should I wait for 1.0 RC 16?


Andrew