[Dovecot] Info regarding conversion of mbox to maildir
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri Feb 6 06:15:40 EET 2009
On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
> When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up
> namespaces
> during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything
> is by itself?
Just adding namespaces won't really help with anything, except unless
you want to use both maildir and mbox at the same time.
> Should I set up deliver to go to maildir/ globally, or per user?
Depends on if you convert everything at once or one user at a time. Or
you can just use convert plugin with deliver and then you don't have
to worry about it.
> I have considered using the convert plugin, if there are not a lot
> of negatives.
I don't know if anyone has really used it to do the conversion, but I
don't see why it wouldn't work. :) The main negative is that it
doesn't preserve message UIDs, so IMAP clients will re-download the
messages and if you have any POP3 users that store messages on server
they'll get duplicate messages.
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