On 4.12.2006, at 18.46, Andrew Z wrote:
Is this configuration snippet valid? default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir convert_mail = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Yep. Thank you very much. After the conversion, are the files in /~ renamed or moved? I didn't really think of that.. Currently it would rename your whole home directory to to <user>-converted, which I guess you wouldn't really want. That would be very undesirable, and if it dropped privileges at that
Timo Sirainen wrote: point, the operation would fail. (In our case, we use NFS root_squash, so it should fail either way.)
Hmm. I'm not really sure how it even should work. Maybe instead of renaming it could create a .dovecot-converted-file..? I prefer preserving the mbox file names but moving the files to a new, hidden directory like ~/.converted-mbox . Preserving the file names is consistent with the other behavior, and it's easier to reverse the conversion.
Is the CVS stable, or should I wait for 1.0 RC 16? Should be stable if you use branch_1_0 branch and not HEAD. I'm guessing the new convert feature is in both, but if it tries to rename ~, then I'll wait. :)
Andrew