2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
9:33 p.m.
In the midst of evaluating Dovecot for use in solving some mbox locking issues (while also waiting for our eventual migration to maildir), I had an epiphany.
It looks like Dovecot's auto-detection of mail formats would allow us to migrate from mbox to maildir on a user-by-user basis!
I was thinking:
- Let dovecot autodetect mail storage
- Use some procmail trickery to detect which format to deliver into (I am researching how to do the detection on a user-by-user basis)
- Manually convert users as you want by:
- Temporarily disable mail delivery for that user (at least make it look like the inbox is locked)
- Run conversion on mbox files -> maildir format
- Put in the procmail hack for them
- Re-enable delivery
Way cool.
I am still working out the details, but I was wondering if anyone sees a problem with this???
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