> If the files are stored in maildir format , dovecot can handle them > easily .. no need to convert them to mbox... > Now john , this is a interesting idea.. the problem is that this > approach is not very scalable... If you have a few users , then it's > simple.. but if your network has hundreds of users, then it'll be a > daunting task... Yes that's correct, but Erik's email is in the singular and not talking about a network with hundreds of users. > I wonder if there is a easier way to do this kind of migration.... For 1 user probably not, for a network of 100's of course there is find, write, modify a conversion script. I've done both. John