Saurabh Barve wrote:
So, are there newer version of dovecot (1.0-stable) available in rpm formats which are guaranteed to be safe and un-trojaned? And is there any really good reason why I should upgrade to 1.0-stable?
I maintain rpms for dovecot-1.0, which I build on Fedora Core 3. I provide all the build logs and source rpms, so you can build it yourself if you prefer. I have also added a few extra rebuild options which are not available in other rpms I have seen for dovecot-1.0.
The url is http://rpm.chaz6.com/?p=fedora/dovecot
At some point I will transfer these onto my work's domain (ne-worcs.ac.uk).
We are running 0.99 still, as there is no compelling reason to upgrade.
- My second question is about creating the .subscriptions (or subscriptions in 1.0) file. When I moved people over from using pine to using a mail client like Evolution/Thunderbird, I had to create .subscriptions/.mailboxlist file for them so that they could see the folders that they had created in pine. However, people still sometimes access e-mail using pine. They then create new folders in pine, which they are unable to see in their mail client. Is there a way around it? This occurs especially when people check their mail at the start of the month, and pine asks about saving/deleting old sent-mail folders, Trash folders. Is there a way to add these folders automagically to the .subscriptions file?
Sorry, we only use IMAP clients, nothing that directly modifies mail boxes. It's less hassle that way. Perhaps you could configure pine to use IMAP instead.
- Would I be able to support web mail using mailboxes in mbox format, as I have them now? Or do I have to go for Maildir format? Since our university introduced web mail, they have had two sets of folders - one with capitalization (Sent, Deleted Messages, etc.) and one without (sent-mail, etc. - these were from our pine days). Is this due to web mail?
How your mail server stores its mail should have no effect on the clients you use. As long as both your client and server support the same set of protocols, ie IMAP or POP3, you can use whatever combination you like.
The different sets of folders are due to the differing default locations for each client. You can probably change one or the other - if not, I'd suggest using different software! By default Microsoft Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird use different folders for Sent Items. You can change one or the other so that you don't end up with two folders.
Also, if I do need to convert from mbox to Maildir, what is the standard tool for doing that? I saw at least three different tools/scripts for doing that (mbox2maildir,mb2d,mb2md-2,mb2md.pl, .. ). Which tool (and from where) should I use to convert mailboxes without problems?
In the past year I converted ~2000 mailboxes from mbox to maildir, using mb2md. It was definitely worth, as the server's load average is now usually <0.02, wheras before it was as high as 15. We have a lot of staff with huge mailboxes, which caused the problem.
Hope this is useful!
-- Chris Hills IT Services North East Worcestershire College