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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 09:51:24 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 09:51:24 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1.upstream/1%2.3.19.1+dfsg1upstream
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diff --git a/doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt b/doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ba5e88 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +UW-IMAP +======= + +*WARNING: Badly done migration will cause your IMAP and/or POP3 clients to +re-download all mails. Read <Migration.txt> page first carefully.* + +Namespaces +---------- + +By default UW-IMAP allows access to whole home directory. Since the home +directory may contain many other files as well, many people have chosen to +store their mails in the 'mail/' directory. This usually means that IMAP +clients have been configured to use 'mail/' as their "IMAP namespace prefix" +(the clients use different names for this). This doesn't work with Dovecot, +because Dovecot shows clients only the 'mail/' directory instead of the whole +home directory. So if the IMAP namespace was kept as 'mail/', Dovecot would try +to access the '~/mail/mail/' directory. + +There are three ways to fix this: + + 1. Remove the IMAP namespace prefix from the clients. + 2. Use namespaces to allow users to keep using the prefix. See "Backwards + Compatibility" in <Namespaces.txt> for an example configuration. + 3. Configure Dovecot to use home directory ('mail_location = + mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u' and set 'mail_full_filesystem_access=yes'). The + latter is needed to make '~/mail' and '~user/mail' prefixes work. + +A typical mailbox location setting is: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +~/mbox file +----------- + +If a '~/mbox' file exists, UW-IMAP moves all the mails from '/var/mail/user' +into the '~/mbox' file. Currently Dovecot doesn't support this feature. There +are two possibilities to handle this: + + * Move everyone's mails to '~/mbox' and reconfigure your <MDA.txt> to deliver + new mails there by default. + * Move the existing mails from '~/mbox' back to '/var/mail/user'. + +Subscriptions +------------- + +UW-IMAP keeps the list of subscribed mailboxes in '~/.mailboxlist' file, while +Dovecot keeps them in '~/mail/.subscriptions' file. UW-IMAP's subscriptions +also contain the mailboxes with their prefixes, for example: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +mail/box +~/mail/box2 +~user/mail/box3 +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + * If you removed the prefix from the IMAP clients, you'll also have to remove + these prefixes. + * You can use <uw2dovecot.sh.txt> script to copy all the users' '.mailboxlist' + files to '.subscriptions' files (without any prefix removal). + * It's possible to keep using the '.mailboxlist' filename (as long as it's in + the same directory) by modifying 'SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME' define in + 'src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.h' + +UIDs, flags and keywords +------------------------ + +Dovecot uses UW-IMAP compatible metadata headers in mboxes, so it's possible to +migrate back and forth without losing any flags, keywords or cause IMAP UIDs to +change. + +Locking +------- + +UW-IMAP uses dotlock + flock() as the default locking combination, while +Dovecot uses dotlock + fcntl() by default. See <MboxLocking.txt> to determine +what are the correct lock settings for you. To use UW-IMAP compatible locking, +use: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +mbox_read_locks = flock +mbox_write_locks = dotlock flock +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA +------------------------------------------------- + +The first message in a mbox file may contain the subject "DON'T DELETE THIS +MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA". This system message has information about the +mailbox and its state. + +Dovecot v1.0 uses these system messages. Keep them. + +Maildir conversion +------------------ + +If you're planning on migrating to Dovecot, you might also want to switch to +Maildir format as well. However it might be easier to first migrate from +UW-IMAP + mbox to Dovecot + mbox, and only then migrate the users to Maildir +format. + + * http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/maildir-migration.txt describes how to + migrate from UW-IMAP+mbox to Dovecot v0.99 + Maildir. Note that Dovecot + v0.99 has slightly different configuration file settings. + * <Migration.MailFormat.txt> has some migration scripts + * Here is a tool ([attachment:uw2dovecot.pl]) that will convert mbox, mbx, and + mix formatted UW-IMAP folders to Maildir/dovecot format. + +UW-POP3 (UW-IMAP's POP3 wrapper, ipop3d) +======================================== + +By default Dovecot generates POP3 UIDLs differently than UW-POP3, which causes +POP3 clients to redownload them as new messages. You can avoid this by setting: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +To utilize the UW login conversion to lowecase, we recommend that you use the +following option: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +auth_username_format = %Lu +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +You can confirm that the old and the new UIDLs match: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +telnet localhost 110 +user test +pass test +uidl +quit +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +(This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42) |