On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, list@airstreamcomm.net wrote:
I didn't do anything special other than to use
pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes
so that clients don't re-download all their messages.
Did you convert the mbox emails to maildir format as well, or just put dovecot in front of the mbox files and run with the config setting you described above?
No, I left the mailboxes as mbox and did not convert to maildir. I had all sorts of mail clients and some use direct file access to their mailbox, so it requires a lot more deep-think before I can contemplate moving to maildir.
Many people on this list have successfuly migrated to maildir so I don't think you'll have too much trouble.
You'll appreciate that dovecot avoids some of the problems I had with qpopper:
- qpopper made temp copies of a user's INBOX, and if you didn't put
the drop copy on another filesytem, you essentially halved a user's
quota.
- because of the above, qpopper eats I/O like candy.
- multiple client qoppper access will trouncing/locking user INBOXs.Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com