On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 20:17 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Looking for a guide on converting to Maildir. > Here are our relevant specs. > sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 (we may not be able to upgrade this due to too many > modifications) > imap-2002d-14 > procmail-3.22-10.el3.centos.0 > To a maildir setup... > <rant> > I was in a panic today at work because the backup server is filling up too > quickly, backing up peoples email. Further it is not backing up often enough. I > just lost all of today's email. I hate mbox and imap and outlook... > </rant> > All the maildir stuff I can find is postfix oriented. Because sendmail is rapidly fading into history? > From what I can read in > procmail man pages, it supports maildir and sendmail uses procmail as the LDA, > hence sendmail "supports" it. There are numerous IMAP servers that support maildir, and scripts to import MBOX files - that is how I would approach it. [But then I wouldn't use Maildir; I mean, really, who cares what format your messages are in - use IMAP and network access your message store. Cyrus IMAPd will index and filter all your messages for you].