Kyle Wheeler wrote:
Just as a tip - there was a maildir2IMAPdir perl script posted to this mailing list a long time ago that creates, when it migrates you from one to the other, symbolic links so that Maildir and IMAPdir kindasorta exist alongside each other. It keeps vpopmail happy, because it can continue delivering to Maildir (which just so happens to be IMAPdir/INBOX, really). It also keeps most scripts happy too - the only thing that gets messed up is creating new folders.
One more thing that I forgot - mail filtering software.
But I must ask what the purpose of IMAPdir is at all, anyways. I switched our internal server over to dovecot yesterday because of some outstanding bincimap issues (periodic problem with errors in mail clients and timeouts in webmail that I need to bug Andreas about with details), and found by surprise that out of the box it *felt* like I was using IMAPdir, because all of my folders appeared at the same level as my INBOX in my MUAs. Additionally, in it's subscriptions file, the folders are listed without the INBOX prefix, like so:
Clients.Zonar Systems Financial.eBay INBOX Sent Items
This is *really* ideal for me, because I get the results that IMAPdir provides, while I'm really using plain old maildir++, which all my applications support with no changes. Could this be an option in binc for people who are using maildir++ depots?
I'm really impressed by dovecot - the config file gives a lot of options and is quite readable, and things are more reliable now regarding the timeouts I was experiencing.
In bincimap's defense, bincimap is faster and fits into a djb-ish system (daemontools, etc.) nicer.
Cheers,
-- Casey Allen Shobe
