[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. :)
>
Hello


dsync has worked well in converting all my imap folders
which are accessibles from Tbird

but it does not convert my INBOX ... which seems empty

the command was

dsync -u bonnetf mirror mbox:/user/bonnetf/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/bonnetf


What did I missed ?