[Dovecot] migrating from uw imapd

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 05:35:20PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 16:17 Europe/Helsinki, Craig wrote:
> 
> >1. uw imapd grabs new mail from /var/mail/user and then shoves it into 
> >~/mbox, is there any way to make dovecot handle this kind of setup or 
> >am I better off merging ~/mbox back into /var/mail/user? If merging is 
> >better are what tools are best for this?
> 
> There's no way currently. And I'm not sure what's the point of that 
> anyway, so I don't really have plans to do that. Wasn't this mbox 
> moving optional in UW-IMAP too?

Yes but last I knew it was compiled on by default.
(EXTRADRIVERS=mbox).  The behaviour only happened if mbox existed
in the home directory-- if you never created that file you wouldn't
see it happen.  I always turned it off.

mm