convert mdbox to maildir

[Patrick Domack]

Not sure what this had to do with the question asked.
You're using mbox, but he is using mdbox.
Postfix is unable to write to mdbox itself.


Quoting justina colmena ~biz <justina at colmena.biz>:

> *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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>
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