[Dovecot] Cyrus MailDir to Dovecot mbox

[CJ Keist]

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Charles,
   It's to do with how our current file services are setup and a
personal preference and familiarity with the mbox format.  Right now
other than users inboxes, all mail folders are stored in the users home
directory on central file server which the mail server mounts via NFS.
  Maildir is a big change from mbox and would give a confusing view to
users that decided to look into their Maildir folder.  I don't even want
to think about what they might try mucking around with in there ;).
mbox format is just cleaner and users can easily see that these are the
same folders they see on their mail client.
   But if I ever get the money to add enough local disk storage on our
mail server and can move all users mail folders to the mail server, is
when I would probably think about switching over to the Maildir format.
 This way the users only way to access their Maildir folder would be
through a mail client.


Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 10/9/2008, CJ Keist (cj.keist at colostate.edu) wrote:
>> The built in convert plugin
>> with dovecot was not able to do it.  I believe due to the fact that this
>> guy has folders with messages and then sub-folders with more messages.
>> I'm migrating to mbox format which doesn't allow that feature.  The
>> convert-tool showed me this and it was easy fix to just move all
>> sub-folders  up to a flat directory structure.  Then the convert-tool
>> ripped right through all the messages.
> 
> So, I'm curious why you didn't just migrate to maildir format - sounds
> like it would have been much easier...
> 

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C. J. Keist                     Email: cj.keist at colostate.edu
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