[Dovecot] Maildir messages

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon Jul 16 13:35:52 EEST 2012


On 2012-07-15 6:22 PM, Nick at 5sg.eu <Nick at 5sg.eu> wrote:
>> maybe - just as in article below
>> http://www.bishnet.net/tim/blog/tag/maildir-to-mbox/
>> you like archive in such format

> I'm trying to switch dovecot to MBox, not just make archives.
> BTW: I use http://yergler.net/projects/one-off/maildir-to-mbox as
> it's much smaller and very simple to use to make archives.

Why do people insist on using $random_howto on the internet instead of 
the official documentation?

> Does anyone else know the correct way to either switch the
> existing Maildir multiple file format to the single MBox file
> format. Failing that, though it will mean a LOT of work, how do I
> get dovecot to work in future in MBox single file format.
> I've entered 'mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/%h/%u' in the
> 'dovecot.conf', but it still saves each message in a file of its
> own in the /new /cur /tmp directories ??

Maybe...

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat

?

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Best regards,

Charles



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