[Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 16:04 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote:
> Questions:
> 1) What does explicitly specifying MAIL this way override?  The 
> dovecot.conf mail_location variable?

Yes.

> 2) My mail_location var is defined as:
> 
> mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
> 
> and my prospective maildir INBOX and mail folder root is to be 
> ~/Maildir.  So would I change the above to:

Yes.

> > if [ -d $HOME/Maildir ]; then
> >   export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER
> > else
> >   export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER:
> > INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER
> > fi 

Although the "else" part is unnecessary, since it's the default anyway.

> Question 3:  When converting existing users from mbox to maildir, should 
> I delete the index contents?

They'll be created into different directories. mbox is in .imap/ dirs,
while Maildir doesn't use it. So you can delete the .imap/ dirs
afterwards from wasting space.

BTW. Are you also using a script that preserves IMAP UIDs? Otherwise
IMAP clients will re-download all the mail.
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