Stewart:
I am running (still non-production) dovecot 1.0 from the July 5 daily snapshot under AIX 5.1 using JFS, with maildir mailboxes in a custom location.
The timezone issue I posted to the list last week is the only problem I've noticed to date.
Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:32 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
Some questions I couldn't find answered in the docs:
1, 2 and 5 seem to be answered already, so I'll answer the rest two:
- on IBM's AIX Unix... Q3: Is there anyone out there running DC on AIX? 5.x or 4.3.3? JFS or JFS2?
There was just another mail about AIX having problems with timezones (Subject: Time zone problems with dovecot-1.0-stable (20050705 nightly snapshot)). Maybe look at how that thread continues if you have the same problem.
One thing I've seen with Linux+JFS is that directory's mtime wasn't modified when new files were added to it, which broke maildir's new mail checks. But maybe this was a bug in some specific Linux version. If anyone is running JFS, I'd like to know if this problem still exists..
- Inbox location/format: = I will want to move from our legacy .mbox format to, I suppose, the DC default of Maildir++. = I will want to do this in groups over time, rather than all at once, so both formats will have to work = The legacy location of INBOXes has been /var/spool/mail/<userid>. The docs appear to say that Maildir format INBOXes should be in ~/Maildir. Q4:Can the INBOXes be in two location, the converted new Maildirs in ~, and the old unconverted in vsm? Or will I have to override the DC cfg'ed INBOX location to be VSM until I get them all converted and then move them all to ~/Maildir and change the DC config to that?
One possibility is to let Dovecot autodetect the mailbox location. It checks for ~/Maildir first and ~/mail second. It's probably the easiest way, but if some users have created ~/Maildir accidentally you'll get into trouble.
Another possibility is to specify separately for each user where their mails are stored. But if you're going to be using NIS as userdb, this isn't possible..
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Migration and http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Namespaces will also help how to do the change transparently to users.