From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67327 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Questions about nnimap and cyrus->dovecot migration Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:18:01 +1000 Organization: I know I put it down here, somewhere. Message-ID: <8763p8puli.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <87r67x48ow.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220754977 27328 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 02:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:36:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15778@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 07 04:37:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcA9I-0004jl-5I for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:37:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KcA7J-0005sT-CV; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KcA7H-0005sB-J2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KcA7E-0006Co-ER for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KcA7G-0004th-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:35:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KcA7C-0004dT-6s for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: from ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net ([59.167.189.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: from daniel by ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:35:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-Distribution: bofh Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G9OL4B88uYY6OuZ0lUC1ozCKfUw= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67327 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: > Does anyone here have any experience about migrating their IMAP > folders from a cyrus to a dovecot server, and any views on the > utilities mentioned here? > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Cyrus > > In particular: how well will will the nnimap specific flags survive > the transition? Technically, imapsync was mentioned there, which I have used and found to be uniformly excellent. It preserves all IMAP attributes by virtue of working at the IMAP level, which is very effective, and handles failure / interruption effectively. Regards, Daniel