On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
Hello people,
Since the invention of this storage called dbox, I have never quite gotten round to understanding it, nor getting to use it. It seems so strange to me and I must ask a few stupid questions about it. I use the MTA to deliver mail to Maildir, either in ~/Maildir or /some/path/%d/%n/Maildir. It has always beat me how dbox comes into play under such circumstances. From the wiki, I see the following: "dbox supports a quick migration from Maildir format" - now this leaves me hanging. How? Suppose I migrate from Maildir to dbox, what changes do I make to the MTA to understand that I use dbox? Ok, I use Exim as my MTA.
I hope someone can explain to me what I need to do to Exim and what to do
Odhiambo Washington wrote: th
Dovecot so that I can test this dbox thing. And suppose I want to transfer userA's mail to UserB, what do I do? With Maildir, I can simply do something like
exim does not know about dbox (it's a dovecot-specific format). You'd need to configure exim to use dovecot's deliver as LDA. There are instructions for that in the Wiki.
I thought so. Now I have seen, read and understood (so far) http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim. However I do not see any examples for configuring dovecot for dbox. Is it as easy as s/maildir/dbox/g in the following:
mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u:CONTROL=/var/dovecot/%u
And suppose I wanted to redeliver mail stored in dbox, using the MTA?? For example, I have used the following script to redeliver mail stored in Maildir:
#!/bin/sh # email=$(find $*) # { for x in ${email}; do sendmail odhiambo@gmail.com < ${x}; done }
I'd invoke this as /path/to/script /dir/to/list (/path/to/script
Maidir/new for instance)
Ok. Sorry it looks like I have unending questions:(
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