[Dovecot] migrating from mbox to maildir

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Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, November 23 at 01:53 PM, quoth Erick Perez:
>> Hi all,
>> I have a locking problem in a Centos 4.4 linux machine with the
>> following config:
>> dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4
> 
> The problem is quite likely one that was fixed in more recent versions
> of dovecot. Versions 0.99.x are extremely old (to the point of nearly
> being an entirely different product from Dovecot 1.0).
> 
>> then someone told me that I need to change dovecot to maildir format.
>> Is there a reference to change format?
>> Or some comments about this?
> 
> Dovecot 0.99.x's Maildir support may have been better than its mbox
> support, but that's a bad reason to convert all your mail storage. If
> you update your Dovecot to a non-antique version, chances are you'll fix
> your problem with much less effort.
> 
> If for some reason you are completely stuck with 0.99.x, then yes,
> changing to Maildir format is pretty easy, and there are plenty of
> conversion scripts out there in the world. Just ask Google. Keep in mind
> if the real problem is some bug in Centos that prevents Dovecot from
> using locks, then the Maildir conversion may not help much, because
> Maildir (in Dovecot) uses locks as well.

why lock?

anyway, the problem should be solved because postfix won't need to lock
the file.