[CentOS] dovecot/procmail w/maildir format?

Sat Feb 23 18:43:06 UTC 2008
David Hrbác( <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz>

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