[Dovecot] Corrupted Mail?

[Larry Rosenman]

If you can have as much of the read/write via Dovecot(IMAP Daemon), most of
the pain is on the initial conversion.

If, on the other hand, you have programs/scripts that access the
mboxes/maildir's directly, there will be pain/work for each program/script
that touches the file(s)/directories.


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Arthur Dent
<arthurdent.london at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 16:45 +0200, Patrick De Zordo wrote:
>
> >
> > You would *really* not change do Maildir format?
> > It's not so difficult to switch over.. and you will have working and
> simple mailfolders.. (also backup and restore would be a simple task)..
> >
> > So, why won't you change at all?
>
> Well - the more I read about this, the more I think you're right.
> Perhaps I should convert to Maildir - but I'm terrified...
>
> I have seen that there is a script - mb2md - that I can use, but what
> changes do I need to make elsewhere?
>
> I get my mail from a variety of ISP and online email accounts using
> fetchmail. I guess there's no change needed there?
>
> That feeds into procmail. I think I will have to change the mail
> procmail configuration file and ALL my procmail recipe rc files (I have
> many) - which filter into several different mboxs?
>
> Within one of the procmail recipes I call spamassassin and clamscan.
> Will they be a problem?
>
> Then Dovecot. What changes do i need to make within Dovecot?
>
> What about the clients? Do I need to configure squirrelmail, Evolution
> or iPad/iPhone email clients?
>
> I archive old mail using archivemail. I think this can cope with maildir
> format, but it archives to a mbox - which I guess is not a problem
> except when I want to retrieve something from the archive - but I think
> I can use Mutt for that?
>
> Is there anything else I should consider?
>
> I have the day off tomorrow. I might have a go - what do you think?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
>


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