[Dovecot] Re: mbox to maildir conversion - good idea regarding Outlook?

[Gerhard Hofmann]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> BTW. Nowadays Dovecot includes its own conversion tool also, which might
> work better than mb2md. Usage is something like:
> 
> src/plugin/convert-tool user /home/user mbox:/home/user/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u maildir:/home/user/Maildir
> 

Hi,

haven't found convert-tool on my Debian box (I used apt-get to install 
everything...), so I tried mb2md for a test account as described in the 
WIKI.

Output of mb2md and also resulting Maildir directory and files looked to 
me like everything worked, but now Thunderbird doesn't show the 
mailboxes that were converted from mbox to maildir.

Right now, I haven't set default_mail_env in dovecot.conf as everything 
was detected automatically.

Of course, I could set default_mail_env but I don't want to convert all 
users to maildir before having seen it works for one specific testing 
account.

Can I set default_mail_env on a per use base? Will I have to use namespaces?

TIA
Gerhard