On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote: > 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]. I think the OP said he wanted maildir for backup reasons. With mbox a single new email will mean the whole mbox needs to be backed up, with maildir only that email will need backing up. -Ross