[Dovecot] Silent migration from mbox to maildir?

[Pascal Volk]

On 01/12/2010 03:23 PM Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after migrating to a new hardware (which is soo soooo mutch faster than
> the old one) I start to think about migrating from mbox to maildir.
> 
> I'v read some docs and wikies and some questions are unanswered or maybe
> I skip the answers:
> 
> - Is it possible to migrate the mboxes "silent" e.g. if a user logs in
> the mbox is converted?

Yes, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert

> - regarding the Namespaces wiki article, it is possible to mix mbox and
> Maildir for one user. Is it possible to use this setup for all newly
> created accounts?

I'm happily Namespace free. ;-) But I believe the configured Namespace
settings are for all users. And I'm not sure if one can overwrite
Namespace settings with user database extra fields.

> - Is it possible to have maildir set up for all newly created accounts
> while the old accounts still use mbox?

It's possible to set the mail_location per user. In order to do this,
your user database has to return a mail field. See
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase


Regards,
Pascal
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