[CentOS] dovecot/procmail w/maildir format?
David Hrbác(
hrbac.conf at seznam.cz
Sat Feb 23 18:43:06 UTC 2008
Kenneth Porter napsal(a):
> If one has a large hierarchy of mbox files managed by dovecot and
> procmail, is there a convenient way to convert them to maildir?
>
> Can one serve an account that uses both?
>
> What about INBOX? Must that be a mbox file in /var/spool/mail/<user> or
> can it be a maildir directory in the user's home directory?
>
> Can I change this per-user? I have some users with little organizational
> skill who build up huge inboxes and have only the default subfolders
> created by their mail client (ie. Sent, Trash, etc.), and I'd like to
> switch them to maildir to avoid the huge incremental backup load of
> backing up entire mail folders.
Yes, dovecot can have per user mail storage. I has techniques to guess
user's format. So you can have one with mbox and other with maildir. As
to conversion to maildir, there a script to convert mbox to maildir.
Works pretty smoothly.
David
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