On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up
namespaces during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything
is by itself?
Just adding namespaces won't really help with anything, except unless
you want to use both maildir and mbox at the same time.
Should I set up deliver to go to maildir/ globally, or per user?
Depends on if you convert everything at once or one user at a time. Or
you can just use convert plugin with deliver and then you don't have
to worry about it.
I have considered using the convert plugin, if there are not a lot
of negatives.
I don't know if anyone has really used it to do the conversion, but I
don't see why it wouldn't work. :) The main negative is that it
doesn't preserve message UIDs, so IMAP clients will re-download the
messages and if you have any POP3 users that store messages on server
they'll get duplicate messages.