On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:06 +0100, Dominik Zyla wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:52:23AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams 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]. > Many people care about storage format. And they are misguided in doing so. Details of message storage is an internal [server's] problem. > Mbox is much more slower during > operations on it. It's because it's operate on single file, Correct, but who cares? If the server provides high-performance to the mailbox... why care? Message format storage wars are silly.