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