on 10-22-2008 9:11 PM Kyle Wheeler spake the following: > On Wednesday, October 22 at 11:35 PM, quoth Albert E. Whale: >> I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully converted >> the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am setting up >> the procmail tool to place the messages into the correct folder. I >> have been following the http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat >> formula, but now have a question. >> >> New Messages are now being placed into the ~user/Maildir/new folder. > > Procmail understands Maildir natively; you don't have to tell it to put > messages into the "new" folder, you should just tell it to put things > into the Maildir folder and end the line with a /, like so: > > # correct! > :0 > ~user/Maildir/ > > # incorrect > :0 > ~user/Maildir/new/ > > # also incorrect > :0 > ~user/Maildir/new > > If you specify the "new" directory, you're either telling procmail to > treat that directory like an MH folder, which is wrong, or you're > telling procmail that the "new" directory is a Maildir, in which case it > will create another "new" directory within that directory (along with a > "tmp" and "cur" directories). > > ~Kyle I have been thinking about converting also. Will the standard auto detect routines work with both types during the conversion, or will I need to deal with namespaces?
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