[Dovecot] links causing dovecot endless search through user's homedirs

[Scott Silva]

on 2-29-2008 10:24 AM John Gray spake the following:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 12:19 -0500, Paul Letta wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Since I can't get a hold of my users and make them all put their imap
>>> folders in /home/username/mail and configure dovecot to just search
>>> there...
>>>     
>>
>> Couldn't you do this automatically? Move all files that look like mboxes
>> to mail/ directory.
>>
>>   
> If somebody has a nice tool moving everything that looks like a mbox to 
> the mail directory, I'd sure love it have it.
> 
> I've been toying with this for some time.
> 
> John
> 
I think most mbox files would start with "From " or the UWimap header if they 
were converted.
You could also parse the users .subscriptions file and move what is in it.



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