[Dovecot] Info regarding conversion of mbox to maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Silva wrote:

> When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up  
> namespaces
> during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything  
> is by itself?

Just adding namespaces won't really help with anything, except unless  
you want to use both maildir and mbox at the same time.

> Should I set up deliver to go to maildir/ globally, or per user?

Depends on if you convert everything at once or one user at a time. Or  
you can just use convert plugin with deliver and then you don't have  
to worry about it.

> I have considered using the convert plugin, if there are not a lot  
> of negatives.

I don't know if anyone has really used it to do the conversion, but I  
don't see why it wouldn't work. :) The main negative is that it  
doesn't preserve message UIDs, so IMAP clients will re-download the  
messages and if you have any POP3 users that store messages on server  
they'll get duplicate messages.