I have just written an article for SysAdmin magazine on how to perform a gradual conversion from mbox to maildir with dovecot. Contact me off-list if you would like me to mail you a first draft for review. I have no idea when it might actually show up in the magazine.
Also I would welcome any dovecot gurus who would like to review my article for accuracy to take a look at it too.
P.
On 01/26/07, FiL @ Kpoxa wrote:
Incremental backups with Maildir are much faster and easier and more efficient and ...
Another thing is stability. Corrupted mailbox ruins whole mailbox (or at least might ruin), which could be thousands of messages. Corrupted message in Maildir is just one corrupted message.
FiL
Brian G. Peterson wrote:
On Sunday 10 December 2006 19:16, Michael Dilworth wrote:
I am currently running Dovecot as a pop3 server with standard /var/mail mbox's I would like to run a mixed Imap/Pop3 server with ~/maildir inbox's
I would suggest first using mbox for everything, since you already have mbox working.
Dovecot can support a mixed environment, and maildir is indeed somewhat faster, but if only some of your users intend to use imap, mbox plus dovecot's indexes may very well be sufficient without conversion. If the performance is acceptable, you might not need to run a mixed environment.
Regards,
- Brian
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