4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
2:05 a.m.
Matthew Exon wrote:
- Is there some system wide setting for this? I don't want to port my own mailboxes, and then have it be the same old mbox stuff for the next person I create an account for. A lot of the documentation sorta answers this, but it assumes you're setting up a brand new system, not trying to modify an existing one.
There is for Dovecot... you may have to do other work to convince your LDA to do the same.
- What's the best way to do this on a Debian system? Was there some setting I missed when I was setting up the box? I would much rather set a debconf setting than fool around inside a config file.
To be honest, I've never looked at that. In fact, the only machines I've run IMAP servers on, to date, have been Solaris.
- What's going to happen to /var/spool/mail? That looks like a mbox thing. I'd much rather have all my mail in one place, rather than in two places like now.
In my case, I've told Postfix to deliver mail in Maildir format into '.imap' in the user's home dir. So, /var/spool/mail goes unused for me.
I installed mb2md, but then I got cold feet about whether it was likely to work or not, so I haven't run it yet...
Well, I'm all for migrating to Maildir. It made sense to me the first time I heard about it, and after seeing all the pain Timo and others have suffered trying to make mbox work, I'm sure I made the right choice.
-- Curtis Maloney