[Dovecot] mixed MBOX and Maildir format ?

[Frank Bonnet]

On 05/09/2012 09:24 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 02:20 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 09:16 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> would it be possible to have mixed formats in Dovecot 2.1.x  userland ?
>>>
>>> I mean
>>>
>>> MBOX format for INBOXes
>>> Maildir format for IMAP folders   ( to let users create subfolders )
>> You could, although I think it's a bad idea (more complex, mbox breaks
>> easlier, etc.) http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Examples
>>
>>
>
> Hello
>
> Yes I know it is far from the best solution , but this will be temporary
> my final goal is to convert all users's email space to maildir but
> I cannot do it all at once because of time it will take.
>
> I cannot stop my production server 24 hours to convert all mailboxes
> from MBOX to Maildir or I would have to face at  a users's riot !!!
>
>

BTW  would it be possible to run 2 Dovecot instances on the same server ?
one running on std ports numbers and one running on customs ports numbers
thank you