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Charles, It's to do with how our current file services are setup and a personal preference and familiarity with the mbox format. Right now other than users inboxes, all mail folders are stored in the users home directory on central file server which the mail server mounts via NFS. Maildir is a big change from mbox and would give a confusing view to users that decided to look into their Maildir folder. I don't even want to think about what they might try mucking around with in there ;). mbox format is just cleaner and users can easily see that these are the same folders they see on their mail client. But if I ever get the money to add enough local disk storage on our mail server and can move all users mail folders to the mail server, is when I would probably think about switching over to the Maildir format. This way the users only way to access their Maildir folder would be through a mail client.
Charles Marcus wrote:
On 10/9/2008, CJ Keist (cj.keist@colostate.edu) wrote:
The built in convert plugin with dovecot was not able to do it. I believe due to the fact that this guy has folders with messages and then sub-folders with more messages. I'm migrating to mbox format which doesn't allow that feature. The convert-tool showed me this and it was easy fix to just move all sub-folders up to a flat directory structure. Then the convert-tool ripped right through all the messages.
So, I'm curious why you didn't just migrate to maildir format - sounds like it would have been much easier...
C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist@colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301
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