[Dovecot] mbox to maildir conversion on a user-by-user basis!

[Tony Kay]

In the midst of evaluating Dovecot for use in solving some mbox locking issues (while also waiting for our eventual migration to maildir), I had an epiphany.

It looks like Dovecot's auto-detection of mail formats would allow us to migrate from mbox to maildir on a user-by-user basis!

I was thinking:

1. Let dovecot autodetect mail storage
2. Use some procmail trickery to detect which format to deliver into (I am researching how to do the detection on a user-by-user basis)
3. Manually convert users as you want by:
   - Temporarily disable mail delivery for that user (at least make it look like the inbox is locked)
   - Run conversion on mbox files -> maildir format
   - Put in the procmail hack for them
   - Re-enable delivery

Way cool.

I am still working out the details, but I was wondering if anyone sees a problem with this??? 

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Anthony Kay
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