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[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.5.2004, at 01:09, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:58 PM +0300 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> 
> wrote:
>
>> There used to be, but then I upgraded the Dovecot in that server to
>> version where mbox didn't work anymore. Now dovecot.org runs in 
>> different
>> server so I guess I could put it back using 0.99.10. Or maybe 
>> 1.0-tests
>> once it's mbox code is working well..
>
> Why does the mailbox format matter? If you just subscribe a dummy user 
> on the IMAP server and point the anonymous directory to that user, you 
> should be able to decouple that. If the result doesn't use mbox, then 
> use your favorite conversion utility to migrate the existing archive 
> before subscribing.

Mailman generates mboxes by itself anyway and mboxes are the fastest 
format for non-changing mailboxes.

Anyway It's mostly because I've been lazy and haven't thought anyone 
would really even care about it. If you really want it now I could set 
it up. But I'd rather wait a while and make 1.0-test version do it so I 
wouldn't have to configure it again later :)
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