On Friday 24 February 2006 11:05, Torbjörn Gripp wrote:

I'm new in using dovecot and I'm running in a problem, which I cannot solve without hours and hours of work. Maybe there is a solution, which I didn't find with old friend google :_) Here is the problem: We are using an old mailserver (it's running fine for 5 years) with qmail and the old uw-imap server. All users have their grown directories under a home/Maildir folder. All subdirectories are lying under Maildir/sub/sub/sub. Now I want to migrate to dovecot and I have a lot of trouble, cause I cannot find a solution to migrate to the folder structure /Maildir/.sub.sub.sub. It's really difficult cause all the windows users have subdirs like one folder (1945)/a new ö/ and something like that! Any hints??

Something like this?

set up a test bunch of nested maildirs:

mkdir -p Maildir/{a,b,c,d,}/{a,b,c,d,}/{a,b,c,d,}/{cur,new}

Move them all:

c=20; while [ $c -gt 0 ]; do for i in find . -type d -not -name cur -not -name new -mindepth $c -not -name '.*'; do j=echo $i | sed -e 's:^\./::' | sed -e 's:/:.:g'; mv -v "$i" ".$j"; done; c=expr $c - 1; done ./a/a/a' -> .a.a.a' ./a/a/b' -> .a.a.b' ./a/a/c' -> .a.a.c' ./a/a/d' -> .a.a.d' [...] ./d/c' -> .d.c' ./d/d' -> .d.d' ./a' -> .a' ./b' -> .b' ./c' -> .c' ./d' -> .d'

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