Not sure what this had to do with the question asked.
You're using mbox, but he is using mdbox.
Postfix is unable to write to mdbox itself.
Quoting justina colmena ~biz :
*My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less
commercial content and trivial notifications from shopping
I was just asking since I saw your gmx.net address, I thought this could be
some large scale stuff and then iops and the used storage have requirements on
your mail format. If you only have a few thousand accounts it does not matter
that much (I guess)
>
> It was a decision we have not been
Thank you.
Do you means two servers? One as source and one as destination? As I understood, destination does not need an imap server...
Description of dsync says: ... All of these can be used within the same server ...
Adapted it says:
mdbox -> maildir migration. Set
It was a decision we have not been involved in. That's it.
We have to do what we are paid for.
But I did not want to start a meta-discussion. I was looking for ideas and technical experience.
(And I agree with Justina that maildir seems to be much more manageable. It is a well-known
*My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less commercial
content and trivial notifications from shopping online, and postfix crashes and
will not accept new messages if the file "/var/mail/justina" becomes too large.
Configuring postfix to deliver the mail to "~/Maildir" solved
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> We need to move all users from one (pretty old) installation of dovecot
> to a new one.
> The old one uses mdbox for users' mailboxes and maildir for
> shared/public mailboxes.
> The new one must be maildir only.
why did you decide to move to maildir?
Hi!
We need to move all users from one (pretty old) installation of dovecot to a
new one.
The old one uses mdbox for users' mailboxes and maildir for shared/public
mailboxes.
The new one must be maildir only.
I believe that I can just copy the shared/public maildir structure to the new
