[Dovecot] How unimportant would be mailstore-tidy utility? :-)

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:14 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>> I use dbox mailbox. In dbox-Mails folder I have message files named:
>> 1) u.99  [dbox created file name]
>> 2) 1231249011.P20963Q0M722109.shevek:2,Sa [dovecot maildir created&modified name]
>> 3) 1.:2,Sa [cyrus name, modified by dovecot maildir] 
>>    [ I have used my own cyrus to maildir conversion scripts]
>
> Oh, you're talking about the maildir-dbox hybrid thing. That was
> probably a worse idea than I originally realized. v2.0 can no longer
> read it, so you need to get it converted to dbox-only-files before
> upgrading to it. Now, how exactly to do that .. I suppose I'll have to
> add some setting or some utility to v1.2.

One more thing: I would be nice (from my perspective) to keep 
"message file" in "unix mailbox box file" format (with one or many
messages in the file).

Current "message files" in dbox mailbox contain some "binary" header and
tail - it makes some "very simple" scripting not so simple.

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