[Dovecot] dbox - how to awaken the monster

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> Since the invention of this storage called dbox, I have never quite gotten
> round to understanding it, nor getting to use it. It seems so strange to me
> and I must ask a few stupid questions about it.
> I use the MTA to deliver mail to Maildir, either in ~/Maildir or
> /some/path/%d/%n/Maildir. It has always beat me how dbox comes into play
> under such circumstances. From the wiki, I see the following:
> "dbox supports a quick migration from Maildir format" - now this leaves me
> hanging. How? Suppose I migrate from Maildir to dbox, what changes do I make
> to the MTA to understand that I use dbox?
> Ok, I use Exim as my MTA.
>
> I hope someone can explain to me what I need to do to Exim and what to do th
> Dovecot so that I can test this dbox thing.
> And suppose I want to transfer userA's mail to UserB, what do I do? With
> Maildir, I can simply do something like
>   

exim does not know about dbox (it's a dovecot-specific format). You'd
need to configure exim to use dovecot's deliver as LDA. There are
instructions for that in the Wiki.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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