[Dovecot] Switch from courier to dovecot
I have an courier IMAP server running. To get sib dirs working I had to rename them all to begin with a period ".".
e.g
Maildir Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account1/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account2/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account3/{cur,new,tmp}
etc
If I uninstall Courier and install dovecot, will these "period" dirs be seen by default?
I am fairly new to this and sometimes it seems that Maildir format requirements vary a lot depending on client or server.
Thank you for your help.
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:29 +0100, Richard G Riley wrote:
I have an courier IMAP server running. To get sib dirs working I had to rename them all to begin with a period ".".
e.g
Maildir Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account1/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account2/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account3/{cur,new,tmp}
I hope these "account" directories really are a single user's mailboxes and not different users' mail directories..
If I uninstall Courier and install dovecot, will these "period" dirs be seen by default?
Yes. Dovecot and Courier use compatible Maildir++ directory structure where mailboxes all begin with a dot. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir explains it more.
Out of curiosity how did you handle the courierimapsubscribed and courierimapuiddb file name differences? Did you just rename them?
Cheers,
Jan
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: dovecot-bounces+jan.vandenberg=isp.solcon.nl@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+jan.vandenberg=isp.solcon.nl@dovecot.org] Namens Richard G Riley Verzonden: donderdag 10 januari 2008 13:30 Aan: Dovecot Mailing List Onderwerp: [Dovecot] Switch from courier to dovecot
I have an courier IMAP server running. To get sib dirs working I had to rename them all to begin with a period ".".
e.g
Maildir Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account1/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account2/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account3/{cur,new,tmp}
etc
If I uninstall Courier and install dovecot, will these "period" dirs be seen by default?
I am fairly new to this and sometimes it seems that Maildir format requirements vary a lot depending on client or server.
Thank you for your help.
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Jan van den Berg
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Richard G Riley
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Timo Sirainen