[Dovecot] Advice, Converting a Live/Production server.

[Philip J. Hollenback]

I have just written an article for SysAdmin magazine on how to perform
a gradual conversion from mbox to maildir with dovecot.  Contact me
off-list if you would like me to mail you a first draft for review.  I
have no idea when it might actually show up in the magazine.

Also I would welcome any dovecot gurus who would like to review my
article for accuracy to take a look at it too.

P.

On 01/26/07, FiL @ Kpoxa wrote:
> Incremental backups with Maildir are much faster and easier and more 
> efficient and ...
> 
> Another thing is stability. Corrupted mailbox ruins whole mailbox (or at 
> least might ruin),
> which could be thousands of messages. Corrupted message in Maildir is 
> just one corrupted message.
> 
> FiL
> 
> Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> >On Sunday 10 December 2006 19:16, Michael Dilworth wrote:
> >  
> >> I am currently running Dovecot as a pop3 server with standard
> >>/var/mail mbox's
> >> I would like to run a mixed Imap/Pop3 server with ~/maildir inbox's
> >>    
> >
> >I would suggest first using mbox for everything, since you already have 
> >mbox working.
> >
> >Dovecot can support a mixed environment, and maildir is indeed somewhat 
> >faster, but if only some of your users intend to use imap, mbox plus 
> >dovecot's indexes may very well be sufficient without conversion.  If the 
> >performance is acceptable, you might not need to run a mixed environment.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >   - Brian
> >  
> 
> 
> 

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Phil Hollenback
hollenba at schrodinger.com
Schrodinger, Inc.