On 01/12/2010 03:23 PM Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > Hi, > > after migrating to a new hardware (which is soo soooo mutch faster than > the old one) I start to think about migrating from mbox to maildir. > > I'v read some docs and wikies and some questions are unanswered or maybe > I skip the answers: > > - Is it possible to migrate the mboxes "silent" e.g. if a user logs in > the mbox is converted?
Yes, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert > - regarding the Namespaces wiki article, it is possible to mix mbox and > Maildir for one user. Is it possible to use this setup for all newly > created accounts? I'm happily Namespace free. ;-) But I believe the configured Namespace settings are for all users. And I'm not sure if one can overwrite Namespace settings with user database extra fields. > - Is it possible to have maildir set up for all newly created accounts > while the old accounts still use mbox? It's possible to set the mail_location per user. In order to do this, your user database has to return a mail field. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: [email protected]
