on 10/27/2011 12:52 PM Albert E. Whale spake the following:

I am transitioning an existing server from using exclusively mbox, to being able to support both mbox and then fully maildir formats.

I need to support the mbox format until I can get everyone switched over to maildir.

What do I need to to use in the config of /etc/dovecot.conf to support the default of mbox, and then the new Maildir format (users will get upgraded individually from mbox to Maildir, and need to be upgraded).

Thank you.

When I did it, the automatic detection seemed to work OK. The only problem I had was because I used procmail for delivery. I had to have a custom procmailrc for each user as I did their migration. For each user, when you finish their migration, you have to rename their ~/mail folder to not show dupes. In my case as soon as there was a ~/Maildir folder, dovecot started using it and made new indexes.