Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox, as I migrate from
mbox format to maildir over the space of a month. After everyone is
converted to maildir, I'll change the mail_location in dovecot.conf.
During the interim, can I use the Custom mailbox location script (at the
bottom of the Mail Location DC Wiki page)?
if [ -d $HOME/.maildir ]; then export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/.maildir else export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/$USER fi
Questions:
- What does explicitly specifying MAIL this way override? The dovecot.conf mail_location variable?
- My mail_location var is defined as:
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
and my prospective maildir INBOX and mail folder root is to be ~/Maildir. So would I change the above to:
if [ -d $HOME/Maildir ]; then export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER else export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER: INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER fi Question 3: When converting existing users from mbox to maildir, should I delete the index contents?
Thanks in advance!
dovecot -n output
# 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00
listen: *:143
ssl_listen: *:993
disable_plaintext_auth: no
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 12
login_max_processes_count: 774
max_mail_processes: 1280
mail_max_userip_connections: 12
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 200
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
mbox_dirty_syncs: no
lda:
postmaster_address: postmaster@example.com
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
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