[CentOS] Converting to maildir

Dominik Zyla gavroche at gavroche.pl
Tue Jan 4 16:22:47 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:38:47AM -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us> 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. From what I can read in
> > procmail man pages, it supports maildir and sendmail uses procmail as the LDA,
> > hence sendmail "supports" it.
> >
> > -Jason
> 
> And with regard to backup space, it might be time to suck it up and
> tell your users that you need to implement mail quotas. How much are
> you backing up from "Sent" and "Trash" because nobody maintains their
> mail folders? A quota can be a great tool for teaching basic mail
> folder housekeeping.

I'll suggest to use journaled-quota. In case of some filesystem problems
there'll be no need to do quotacheck(8) if you're using ext3.

-- 
Dominik Zyla

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