[Dovecot] Multiple mailbox formats, per-user mailbox format support

[Marc Perkel]

Chris Wakelin wrote:

>Ragnar Rova wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a setup where each user has different mailbox
>>formats (some use only /var/spool/mail/user) mailbox format,
>>some is stored in mbx format ~/INBOX or ~/mbox and
>>some is stored in maildir format in ~/Mail/
>>
>>I currently use UW-IMAP to read /var/spool/mail/... and the mbx format
>>mailboxes in ~/INBOX and mutt to read ~/Mail/... (the maildirs in ~/Mail/
>>are created by procmail rules)
>>
>>Does dovecot make it possible to also read the maildir directories i have
>>in ~/Mail/ without having to reconfigure the delivery/imap system for all
>>users?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, if you use Dovecot-1.0-alpha1 (or 1.0-stable) and namespaces, or
>use a userdb format that lets you specify a mail_env for each user (SQL
>or passwd-file, I think). Dovecot can't read mbx format mailboxes;
>they're pretty UW-specific.
>
>Best Wishes,
>Chris
>
>  
>
If you look in the wiki I posted a conversion script to convert from MBX 
to MBOX.

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