Re: Questions about nnimap and cyrus->dovecot migration

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>
>> Right!  I think I'll do that, and post my experiences.
>
> I couldn't figure out how to run cyrus2courier using dovemap style
> maildir under the users' home directories.  And I suspected
> cyrus2maildir.py was limited.
>
> So I set up dovemap on a different machine, and ran imapsync
> transferring the messages.
>
> That worked fine, but to my disappointment the Gnus tickmarks haven't
> been preserved.  As far as I know dovemap preserves client specific
> marks.  

Yeah, it uses a number of Gnus flags to record ticked, seen, forwarded,
etc.  I know this because they show up in the Zimbra web client as
additional tags to the messages.

> Have I been mistaken in that nnimap stores its tickmarks as custom
> marks on the messages?  Have I overlooked some imapsync arguments to
> preserve these marks?

I never needed any specific argument to make that work, no.

Not that this helps much, but as far as I know it should have worked.

Regards,
        Daniel