migrating from dovecot to cyrus

Rudy Gevaert Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be
Tue Jun 27 01:59:50 EDT 2006


Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm about to migrate an pop3/imap server from dovecot to cyrus. I'm 
> planning to use the cyrus murder cluster in the long run, but the setup 
> is a complex. And since the migration from dovecot to cyrus shall be 
> done very soon because of performance problems in the current setup, I 
> guess I can start faster with the standarc cyrus.
> 
> Is it possible to migrate from cyrus to cyrus murder later or do I have 
> to setup a cyrus-murder completely separate so I cannot reuse parts of 
> the standard cyrus setup?
> 
> What would be an recommended way to move maildirs (one file per message) 
> to the cyrus storage for several thousand maildirs?

FYI: cyrus doesn't use maildir format...


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