On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 02:37:04AM +0300, Andreas Kasenides wrote:
mail_location=maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u first and see how it works before moving the INBOX separately from other boxes
That won't work:
imap(hendry): Error: stat(/var/spool/mail/hendry/tmp) failed: Not a directory/var/mail/%u is a directory. It only becomes an mbox if you say so in Dovecot.
IIUC Postfix places by default mail in /var/mail/%u as an mbox.
sg:/etc/postfix$ sudo postconf | grep mail_spool mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
I think the solution from looking around is to use dovecot as an lda. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix
I guess that will solve my mbox to maildir problem. :-)
Actually Dovecot will even auto-discover your mail in /var/mail/<username> among other locations (~Maildir, /var/mail/username, ~/mail, ~/Mail) if you leave mail_location empty.
I take that back. Dovecot without mail_location= seems to discover /var/mail/$username.
Solr is not the only option. The way I understand this is that this will heavily depend on your client, if it will make use of the Dovecot indexing, thefore speeding up operations. I use Thunderbird most of the time and I have no indexing on Dovecot. Searching is quite good.
I use mutt & Apple Mail IOS. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/9652360692/
Thanks for replying! I will update https://github.com/webconverger/sg.webconverger.com with my setup in future.