Kendall Shaw:
I expected dovecot to take the mail out of the mbox file and put it somewhere.
Why should it do this? Dovecot normally tries to automatically detect where your mailboxes are and if it finds them in one of the usual places (for example your /var/mail/user) it uses this location.
But, I see there's a big mbox file (/var/mail/me) that keeps growing. Is dovecot using that as the store of messages?
Probably. Why don't you take a look?
If I were to move to using maildir instead of mbox, what is going to happen to my existing mail?
Nothing. You would have to move your mboxes to maildir yourself. You can use programs like mb2md to do that.
J.
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