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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080222/9702dd17/attachment-0004.sig>