On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:09:32PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

| On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:48:03AM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
|
| > Courier IMAP did not meet migration requirements for this server.
| > Mailbox format is required in this case so that user mail is not
| > lost. I will be using rsync to syncronize the mailboxes from the
| > old machine to the new one, then transfer IP addresses and restart.
|
| Hello? There are conversion scripts for mbox -> maildir
|
| > The POP server used is vm-pop3d. It is past the time to allocate
| > the additional time to change the software used or to work out the
| > strategy to change from mailbox to maildir format. Physical move of
| > servers takes place 13 July. The migration must take place at the
| > maintenance window allocated for least user disruption.
|
| You can even convert on the fly! New delivery to Maildir, then, while
| new mail is coming in you can still convert the old mailboxes in the
| background.

It would be nice if there was the luxury of time to go study all that.
But when an old server starts to die, you don't generally think about
"Oh, let's change the file format so we can change the POP server".
Maybe these things could be done, but it would also be prudent to test
things first, too. Given the short amount of time in this case, it is
barely enough to test a machine, OS, MTA, and POP server. Perhaps I
shouldn't have even tried to virtualize the domain at all, but it will
deal with some issues this server has had.

I do prefer the maildir format. But this wasn't the time for it.

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