[Dovecot] IMAP subfolders and MDBOX

[Frank Bonnet]

On 02/10/2011 12:04 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 07:12 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>
>> We actually use MBOX format on our mailhub but this
>> does not permit to create IMAP subfolders.
> It does, although it's less obvious how to do that with most clients.
>
>> My problem is to choose the format that will permit
>> imap subfolders creation.
> Even mbox supports it, although the filesystem becomes a bit ugly:
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders
>
>> Maildir is not my favorite format and I wonder about
>> MDBOX.
>>
>> Does it permit imap subfolders creation ?
> Sure.
>
>> It is possible to convert from MBOX to MDBOX in one shot ?
> You can run dsync one user at a time, and of course you can run it for
> as many users as you want. I'd suggest switching a few users first to
> make sure everything will work nicely.
>
>> Is it stable / mature enoug for a production server ( 4000 users ) ?
> I hope so. :)
>
Thanks a lot Timo :-)


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