On Friday 22 February 2008 20:09:47 Kenneth Porter wrote:
If one has a large hierarchy of mbox files managed by dovecot and procmail, is there a convenient way to convert them to maildir?
I don't know of any convenient way if you are talking huge amounts. I simply created maildir folders to match each of the mbox ones, just slightly modifying the name, and moved the messages into the new boxes. Finally I deleted the old boxes and renamed the new ones.
Can one serve an account that uses both?
I don't know about that.
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?
My INBOX is in Maildir under my 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.
You'll have much better performance with maildir, if the numbers are great. That's the reason I changed. It will require a bit of organisation from you, but you should be able to set them up exactly as you need. There is a dovecot mailing list if you need detailed help.
Anne