Hi, S'ok I've sorted it. I've temporarily installed Dovecot and just got it to run up its POP3 server and look to the mbox's that Exim has set up in /var/mail. Works like a dream.
Apologies if this isn't quite an exim question, but I put it here just in case there was a solution within exim itself. Besides, I'm sure it'll come up again with someone else at some point. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Wayne Sent: 16 February 2007 12:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [exim] Concurrent use of mbox and maildir formats On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:31:30PM -0000, Mike Jones wrote: > > Hi, > I'm in the process of switching over from ipop3d to courier-imap, and > as part of that, switching my users from mbox to maildir. > > This is quite a big job, and isn't practical to do in one evening, so > I need to migrate the users over several days, while still allowing > them to get access to their emails. > > I've set up a test server with exim and courier-imap, and I'm in the > process of trying this out, prior to doing it on the live server. > > I've managed to set up the necessary routers in the exim config, and I > can have some test user accounts using their existing mbox files, > while others are using the new maildir files. > > However the problem comes when retrieving mail. As courier-imap (i > assume) cannot look at mbox files, any of my test accounts still using > mbox files, cannot retrieve their emails, while the ones using the new > maildir files can. > > One obvious solution would be to run a pop3 server than can read mbox > files, concurrently with courier-imaps pop3 server and have them > listening on different ports - then setting the mail clients to the > appropriate port for POP3. > > Has anyone else had to do this this kind of migration ? Anyone have > any suggestions ? I've tried to install ipop3d, but it won't install > with courier-imap (conflicting files). > > Mike Could you use mb2md to convert mbox files to maildir? Steven. -- [Crash programs] fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. -- Wernher von Braun -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
