The easiest way to do this is to edit file
imap-200?/src/osdep/unix/Makefile
to set
CREATEPROTO=mbxproto
instead of the current unixproto. Then rebuild the entire UW IMAP toolkit.
Yeah, I knew about that method. I was just wondering if there was a way to make dmail (from procmailrc, for example) know to instantiate new mail folders as mbx instead of mbox. It seems not unreasonable to have command-line args for tmail/dmail (other than -I) that could specify format. But, what to do in the case that it doesn't match existing format might be an issue.
However, once created, an mbx-format mailbox shouldn't vanish. So, it should work just to create empty mbx-format mailboxes for everybody who doesn't have it. It works to create one, and then copy it to each user (there isn't any user-specific in an empty mbx-format mailbox). That way, you don't have to do any rebuilding.
Okay. How would you recommend creating this empty mbx mailbox? It would be a bit of a pain to make sure to create a spool mbx file for any new user I want to receive mail from, but not the worst problem. Most other folder creations will be done through IMAPd, tho, so may still require the above. So...
- Chris
