How to migrate mail to mac server

I am currently running a FreeBSD Server with postfix and dovecot as our mail server. Today our new Mac Mini server arrives and I will be configuring that to run mail, calendars and authentication services.
I am familiar with setting up the MX records so new mail will goto the new mail server first, then the old mail server if the new isnt available and setting up postfix to hold and forward the mail when te new server comes back up.
What I do not know how to do is migrate everyon's old mail in dovecot over to the new mail server so they can access it.
If anyone has some experiance with this I would greatly appriciate it.

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Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Elapsed time: 00:00:11
[email protected]
Failed
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Elapsed Time: 00:00:11
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