Thats good to hear ! It will also save you tiny amounts of disk space if you defer indexing ... people who dont long in, or dont access all their folders wont need indexes. I'm a dovecot "newbie" but I didnt have to do any conversions except convert some old "mbx" folders I had from UW ... I used the "mailutil" program from UW to convert from mbx to mbox

My mistake, good point.

I thought that creating the indexes would take a long time, but after a couple of tests, I found that Dovecot is so fast that it beats UW IMAP even while creating the indexes and after that, it is just fast.

Thanks

Bertrand

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From: "David A. Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>

I'm curious why this is an issue ? Wont dovecot make the indexes on first use of the mbox if it finds no indexes ?

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:30 -0500, Bertrand Leboeuf wrote:

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I have ~500 users, some with HUGE mbox (500MB-1GB), is there a script to create the Dovecot indexes at night to help speed up the migration process.

If you use the dovecot converter then indexes will be built during the conversion.

johannes

Good, can I use convert-tool to do: mbox -> mbox + indexes

I have not tested the maildir configs yet and I will have to deal with the number of files and their placement.

Bertrand