mbox backup to Dovecot

[mwhuen]

Provide that I have a DA server running Dovecot and maildir,
and now I have mbox backup, how can I restore the mbox backup in the Dovecot server?

What are the steps?
Any script I can use?

Thank you.

Stanley

 

[nobaloney]

The only way we've found to do this is to create a temporary DA server using mbox, restoring the domain(s) to that, and then converting the temporary server to Dovecot, and then backing that up and restoring it to your live server.

Jeff

 

[mwhuen]

Thanks.

And I will open 110, 1100 and 11000 port for POP3,
how can I do with Dovecot?

Regards,

Stanley

 

[nobaloney]

Dovecot is a program and it doesn't have any port requirements.

If you're using Dovecot as a POP3 server, then you need to open the POP port, 110.

If you're using Dovecot as an IMAP server, then you need to open the IMAP port, 143.

Jeff

 

[DamnSkippy]

Most ISPs are block port 25 now and I use 587 as an alternative with qmail. Dove dovecot let you pick and choose or only allow certain ones?

 

[nobaloney]

Dovecot doesn't care. It's a program.

You'll need port 587 opened in your firewall, and DA's exim install will automatically use it for authenticated senders. The configuration is already there.

Jeff

 

[DamnSkippy]

Cool, that makes things simple.

 

[nobaloney]

Just make sure you've got the latest (version 2.0) version of the SpamBlocker exim.conf file. Look at the first few lines of exim.conf, or grep the file for 587.

Jeff

 

[DamnSkippy]

Will do but from reading things here I thought that DA now used the V2 of that file.

Is it not correct that a new install of DA would have the V2 conf file?

 

[nobaloney]

A new install of DA made at this time does use Version 2.

My replies are written for everyone, and for the archives.

I should have written version 2.0 or later.



Jeff