[Dovecot] Converting from Maildir format ?

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-07-18 5:39 PM, Nick at 5sg.eu <Nick at 5sg.eu> wrote:
> I'm still trying to find out if anyone knows the correct
> way to either switch the existing Maildir multiple file format to
> the single file format I believe known as MBox.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat

Fyi, Timo has designed a new higher performance format known as dbox, 
for which there are two versions, you can read about here:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox

But you only want to use it if you are on more recent versions (at least 
latest 2.0.x).

> Failing that, though it'll mean a LOT of work for me to manually
> convert all of the existing Maildirs, how do I get dovecot to
> work in future in MBox single file format.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox

> I tried entering 'mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/%h/%u' in
> the 'dovecot.conf', but it still saves each message in a file of
> its own in the /new /cur /tmp directories ??

The wiki/docs are pretty thorough for basic settings...

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Best regards,

Charles