[Dovecot] Archiving Dovecot format maildir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 8 02:26:28 EEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:11 +0200, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> It seems that the Maildir format used by Dovecot is a standard, right? 
> Has anyone written something
> to archive mail in Dovecot format maildirs? I have a script that seems 
> to be for Cyrus IMAP but
> it doesn't seem to work.

What kind of archiving do you want? Courier uses the exact same maildir
format that Dovecot, there might be something available for it.

> I'll write a Perl program if there is nothing available but I am 
> concerned about dovecot's index
> files - do I need to do anything to get dovecot to rebuild them?

No, Dovecot updates indexes itself when needed.

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