[Dovecot] Convert to DBox

Jeff Grossman jeff at stikman.com
Wed Sep 30 05:28:04 EEST 2009


I am thinking of trying out dbox format.  I am currently using maildir.  
Is it possible for me to switch just one user account to dbox while 
keeping all of my other users on maildir?  If so, how would I go about 
doing that?

Here is a copy of my dovecot -n:

# 1.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid ext3
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/stikman-godaddy.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/stikman-godaddy.key
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
lda:
   postmaster_address: postmaster at stikman.com
   mail_plugins: cmusieve
   sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail
   auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   username_format: %Lu
   passdb:
     driver: pam
   userdb:
     driver: passwd
     args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
   socket:
     type: listen
     master:
       path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
       mode: 384
       user: vmail
       group: vmail
plugin:
   sieve: sieve

Thanks,
Jeff


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