convert mdbox to maildir

Marc Marc at f1-outsourcing.eu
Sun Aug 14 09:47:55 UTC 2022


So? that is why you have this lmtp not? Afaik was mdbox created to solve the (performance) issues with mbox and maildir etc. So I just wonder what the logics is behind chosing maildir current day.



> 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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