On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:55, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On May 23, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > >> Installing it from ports (/usr/ports/mail/courier-imap) is > >> pretty straightforward, and most settings can be left at the > >> default, at least > > > > True, except... > > > > Courrier-imap is using maildir mailboxes, so unless the existing > > system already uses maildir, there will be some disturbance at > > the conversion time. > > Can be done very minimally. When we converted from mbox to maildir > (coincidentally to courier) about 4 years ago we just did it in the > middle of the night and had a script that converted the mbox to > maildir (found on a qmail site) and it went fast and quick and mail > access was turned off for only a short time... > > Probably less of a hassle then moving to cyrus but my experience > with cyrus was long ago I made the switch from an mbox -> cyrus/maildir setup several months ago and it went smoothly. You just need to make sure you run reconstruct after the conversion so the index is up to date. -- Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/
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