[Dovecot] Cyrus MailDir to Dovecot mbox

[Charles Marcus]

On 10/9/2008 12:08 PM, CJ Keist wrote:
> 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.

<shudder>

I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if my users' mail was directly
accessible by the users... ;)

> 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.

I feel your pain...

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Best regards,

Charles