Hi,I have been testing dovecot on my own machine before a bigger deployment. Basically I have all my mbox mailboxes in ~/Mail, delivered by procmail.
Some mbox's are gzipped because they are archives which I can grep into, but do not want to look at often.
When I first launched an IMAP client, dovecot created the indexes (I think) and gave several errors when finding a gzipped file, such as:
,---- | Oct 1 19:53:21 mafate imap(olive): File isn't in mbox format: /home/olive/Mail//Archives/daily.d/mafate.2003.gz `----
After 19 gzipped mbox's, I had the following crash:
,---- | Oct 1 19:53:21 mafate dovecot: child 4923 (imap) killed with signal 10 `----
Does dovecot not like gzipped mbox's? For the moment, all gzipped files are in ~/Mail/.Archives and I can live with it.
-- olive