[Dovecot] running DC and UWIMAP on the same box
Chris Wakelin
c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Thu Mar 15 22:50:20 EET 2007
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:45 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
>> It never hurts to ask......
>> I am bringing up DC on my production mailserver (which runs UWIMAP for
>> production IMAP service) to learn and test it, much as I did when I
>> introduced SSL protected IMAP, using an unpublicized non-standard
>> port. The folder and mailbox location and format will remain the same.
>> Questions:
>> 1) Will DC be building indices for everything or just for the userid
>> that I use to request client service for?
>
> Just for those users who you're logging in as. Or even more accurately,
> only for those mailboxes that it opens.
>
>> 2) Are there any pitfalls others have experience doing this?
>
> I don't think there should be problems. Dovecot's mbox code should be
> fully compatible with UW-IMAP.
>
Just don't open the same mailbox with Dovecot and UW-IMAP at the same
time! You may also find that UW-IMAP changes the UIDVALIDITY sometimes,
which will cause Dovecot to complain next time it opens the mailbox, but
Dovecot will be happy again on subsequent opens.
We did this for a couple of months before we migrated to Dovecot.
Best Wishes,
Chris
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