as promised, here's my report on migrating to bincimap:
1. I installed postfix and used it some days, to make sure, it works. It was no big problem although 1 or 2 Mails bounced, because I forgot to set localhost.$locadomain in the list of domains and the mail fetchmail tried to drop, bounced with an errormessage somehow like "loops back to itself" or so... No problem though.
2. Compiling and installing binimap was a cakewalk. I used rpm for the build-process. I installed to /usr/sbin instead to opt. I just liked this better, even it's not correct according to LSB. If anyone needs the src.rpm which builds on Suse 9.0, give me a note.
3. I used xinetd, because with inetd binimap didn't start correctly. Probably the parameter-passing-problem already mentioned before on this list was the reason. I wanted to migrate to xinetd anyway, so no problem either.
4. I converted the mailboxes by using mb2md-3.10.pl. I modified it:
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< $messagefn = sprintf ("new/%d.%06d.mbox:2,", $unique, $messagecount) ;
---
> $messagefn = sprintf ("cur/%d.%06d.mbox:2,", $unique, $messagecount) ;
to put the mails to cur insted of new. Worked perfect. No problems with the date of the mails either.
5. I rewrote procmailrc to MailDir-Format. No problem.
Things left open:
6. I tried to use ImapDir which I set up in binimap.conf, but Mozilla 1.6 and Thunderbird 1.5 didn't like that. Folders like "~/MailDir/PrivatMail/MyGirlFriend" didn't appear in the "Manage folder subscriptions" menu. So I used "PrivateMail.MyGirlFriend" and the menu provied the correct tree-structure. Is this a problem of the Mozilla-project?
I can live with that, but it would be nicer to have subdirectories in ImapDir-Style, because the tree in my mailbox contains more than 200 leafes wich makes ~/MailDir a little complex.
7. Altouth I set up postfix to:
home_mailbox = Maildir/INBOX/ or home_mailbox = Maildir/
it still dropped mail to /var/mail if there was no
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/INBOX/
in .procmailrc. No real problem either, but what's wrong there?
8. A further question: - how abount shared folders in the future? - how about quota in the future?
So far, thanks for your help and for providing such a nice piece of quality software!
Regards Volker
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