Going from cyrus imap to dovecot

Gordon Charrick gordonmc at cox.net
Mon Sep 6 03:35:20 UTC 2004


Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 03.09.2004 schrieb Gordon Charrick um 18:35:
> 
> 
>>When I convert my main machine from FC1 to FC2 I want to move from using 
>>cyrus imapd to dovecot. It's mainly for simplicity but I also want to 
>>use a more standard mail directory format. Unfortunately, I haven't 
>>found a way to convert my existing mail to maildir format. There seems 
>>to be lots of information on how to convert to the cyrus format but not 
>>from it. I really need to keep metainformation like whether or not the 
>>message has been read already. Has anyone done this?
> 
> 
>>Gordon Charrick
> 
> 
> Not 100% sure whether the Maildir format that courier uses, but if it is
> a standard that dovecot uses to, then have a close look at
> 
> http://www.madness.at/projects/
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 
Unfortunately, it dies saying it can't understand header version 6. I'll 
try writing to the author seeing if he has an updated version.

-- 
Gordon Charrick
gordonmc at cox.net





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