I was just asking since I saw your gmx.net address, I thought this could be some large scale stuff and then iops and the used storage have requirements on your mail format. If you only have a few thousand accounts it does not matter that much (I guess)
It was a decision we have not been involved in. That's it. We have to do what we are paid for. But I did not want to start a meta-discussion. I was looking for ideas and technical experience. (And I agree with Justina that maildir seems to be much more manageable. It is a well-known format.)
Gesendet: Samstag, 13. August 2022 um 21:08 Uhr Von: "justina colmena ~biz" justina@colmena.biz An: dovecot@dovecot.org Betreff: RE: convert mdbox to maildir *My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less commercial content and trivial notifications from shopping online, and postfix crashes and will not accept new messages if the file "/var/mail/justina" becomes too large.
Configuring postfix to deliver the mail to "~/Maildir" solved that problem.
I still need to configure a sieve or a filter or some nicer mechanism to clear out messages that are either outright spam or too old or no longer of interest to me.
On August 13, 2022 10:00:36 AM AKDT, Marc marc@f1-outsourcing.eu wrote:
We need to move all users from one (pretty old) installationof dovecot to a new one. The old one uses mdbox for users' mailboxes and maildir for shared/public mailboxes. The new one must be maildir only.
why did you decide to move to maildir?
-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.