convert mdbox to maildir

[Marc]

I was just asking since I saw your gmx.net address, I thought this could be some large scale stuff and then iops and the used storage have requirements on your mail format. If you only have a few thousand accounts it does not matter that much (I guess)


> 
> It was a decision we have not been involved in.  That's it.
> We have to do what we are paid for.
> But I did not want to start a meta-discussion.  I was looking for ideas
> and technical experience.
> (And I agree with Justina that maildir seems to be much more manageable.
> It is a well-known format.)
> 
> 
> Gesendet: Samstag, 13. August 2022 um 21:08 Uhr
> Von: "justina colmena ~biz" <justina at colmena.biz>
> An: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Betreff: RE: convert mdbox to maildir
> *My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less commercial
> content and trivial notifications from shopping online, and postfix
> crashes and will not accept new messages if the file "/var/mail/justina"
> becomes too large.
> 
> Configuring postfix to deliver the mail to "~/Maildir" solved that
> problem.
> 
> I still need to configure a sieve or a filter or some nicer mechanism to
> clear out messages that are either outright spam or too old or no longer
> of interest to me.
> 
> On August 13, 2022 10:00:36 AM AKDT, Marc <marc at f1-outsourcing.eu>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 		We need to move all users from one (pretty old) installation
> of dovecot
> 		to a new one.
> 		The old one uses mdbox for users' mailboxes and maildir for
> 		shared/public mailboxes.
> 		The new one must be maildir only.
> 
> 
> 	why did you decide to move to maildir?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
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